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[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 11:17:28PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> I have serious reservations about paying for something that they snatch
> away the second you're unsubbed.  That'd be about like buying a DVD that
> self-destructs as soon as you don't re-up your licensing fees.  Oh wait,
> they were doing that once; it was called DiVX--and tanked thoroughly in
> the marketplace...only the codec lives on. 

Note that the DIVX disposable DVD system is completely separate from
the much later DiVX ;-) codec, which was -- so far as I ever understood
-- an MPEG 4 implementation that was stolen out Microsoft's back door
(though I don't seem to be able to find any citations anymore on
that....)

Cheers,
-- jra
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