HA!
SUCK IT DVD-CCA!
Ok sure, that was juvenile, but someone had to say what everyone was thinking
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I thought we were all thinking about how much we hope this comes back to bite the DVD-CCA? Vaults are an inelegant (not to mention expensive) solution. Let 'em burn for getting greedy.CEPro article and elsewhere said:Kaleidescape's Blu-ray servers, which require discs to reside in a carousel for authentication, have never raised legal questions. The DVD CCA has denied Kaleidescape?s offer of a similar solution for DVDs.
I thought we were all thinking about how much we hope this comes back to bite the DVD-CCA? Vaults are an inelegant (not to mention expensive) solution. Let 'em burn for getting greedy.
DVD CCA filed reply to Kal's appeal on 4/April. Kal have 10 days to reply to that (if they want to) from filing date - so that must be ~14/April. I guess at some point (shortly?) after the appeal court considers all the arguments presented. Seems like they were quite quick to put the temporary stay in place, so hopefully this will equally be concluded quickly one way or another.
Neither result is particularly good IMO - even in the best case a stayed injunction during an appeal casts a bit of doubt in the customer's mind.
Peter, I don't see how Kaleidescape gets in front of this based on your suggestions.
Forcing people to upgrade to BR if they don't want to is not a good move. People don't want to be forced to buy things they don't want.
Your posts cause me to think you are somewhat desperate for Kaleidescape to make some kind of move to put this to bed. The simple fact of the matter is legal proceedings take a really long time. I'm sure they would also like to put this in the rear view mirror. Remember, they did prevail in the first trial. It was the DVDCCA that would not accept the courts decision. Now its Kaleidescapes turn to appeal. And round and round we go.
My suggestion is if you feel that upset by this- write the DVDCCA and suggest they let this go. Kalediescape is not the mass market and they've even admitted (so I gather) that they've not suffered any harm from Kaleidescape.
In the mean time the lawyers for both sides make lots of $$$$.... and I'm with Jim- I'm not really that excited by this right now. It needs to play out.
In terms of how this looks to customers- I really think Kaleidescapes best argument for a new customer is their BR playback and that is not in question.
My suggestion is if you feel that upset by this- write the DVDCCA and suggest they let this go. Kalediescape is not the mass market and they've even admitted (so I gather) that they've not suffered any harm from Kaleidescape.
If Kaleidescape loses the case, all sales going forward- new sales- will not import or playback DVDs.