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Re:ISP AT&T Considering Content-Recognizing Anti-Piracy Filt... by rms on Thursday November 08, 2007 @11:19PM (#77802)
>I was thinking about movies and realized that one way to stop pirates is to leapfrog a generation of HD quality.

That would definitely do it to a certain extent, but the vast majority of people right now aren't interested in super-HD. HD media is catching on slowly enough because most people don't seem to care about the difference between HD-DVD and DVD.

It couldn't stop piracy, it would just end up differentiating based on whether or not people thought 1.4 gig .avi's are good enough.

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Re:ISP AT&T Considering Content-Recognizing Anti-Piracy Filt... by ivankirigin on Friday November 09, 2007 @10:14AM (#77898)
Most people don't know how to use HD -- certainly a system failure, but also needed info when thinking about what people want. I'm talking about things like cabling and other junk that people have no idea how to properly configure.

If I were the MPAA, I would push partnerships between player makers and TV makers. Make it trivial to play super HD content. They should add their own P2P download rental service to schedule movies -- another convenience factor added on. If a TV just worked with super HD, and if it were internet enabled to get the content I want, piracy would significantly decrease. Piggyback on top of FIOS, and you'd have something great.

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