Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Samsung Sued Over "Hacker-Friendly" DVD Player
Posted by Chris Gohlke in "HARDWARE" @ 10:00 PM
"It appears that Samsung is in some hot water with some of the big movie studios. According to reports, Disney, Paramount, Time Warner, Twentieth Century Fox and Universal Studios are filing suit against the company because its DVD-HD841 DVD player allows customers to bypass copy-protection safeguards."
From the various coverage I've seen on this, it appears that they are going after them because it is easy to switch region or make the player region free. Of course there are tons of players out there that have this "feature", I guess Samsung is just a deep pocket, so they are going after them. Really though, while there are lots of ways that studios are losing revenue due to illegal copies, do the movie studios think they are losing out on a ton of revenue because people are making their players region free and buying cheaper media from oversees?
From the various coverage I've seen on this, it appears that they are going after them because it is easy to switch region or make the player region free. Of course there are tons of players out there that have this "feature", I guess Samsung is just a deep pocket, so they are going after them. Really though, while there are lots of ways that studios are losing revenue due to illegal copies, do the movie studios think they are losing out on a ton of revenue because people are making their players region free and buying cheaper media from oversees?
