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Originally Posted by bkf "This entire topic, while interesting, is essentially just smoke and mirrors on the part of Macrovision, to attempt to distract people from the reality that RipGuard JUST DIDN'T WORK."
Gurm:
I really don't remember but wasn’t Macrovision and rip guard being dumped by major content providers as useless in the new world. In that case they are trying to drum up a little business. Somehow I doubt the porn industry is going to sign up to the royalty fees required on something that has become as common as dirt to break. And I hope you understood what I was saying before. The infrastructures’ and speeds we now enjoy are a good part of the roll porn played in the beginning. I sit back and wonder how many young users here ever got to play with Netscape V1.0 as the net was growing up. Knowing the roots and history of something so common in our lives today is a noble and worthwhile thing. |
Yep, I totally got it.
I, too, played with Netscape 1.0 back when we called it "Nutscrape" and called the web protocol "HaTeMaiL". The big debate was whether Netscape could possibly supplant Mosaic as the standards-compliant browser of choice! LOL! To those of us who were Comp. Sci. folks at the time, we were really up in the air as to whether the web would ever really be viable considering the technical difficulties of people just getting online... SLIP/PPP were really difficult, and it was a black day indeed when AOL gave their users unregulated access to
USENET and the web.
But things have changed, haven't they? I agree that porn is a HUGE driving factor in new communication technologies. I mean, I wager a HUGE percentage of home 8mm cameras back in the day were sold to people looking to make amateur porn or watch imported reels. We KNOW that VHS beat Beta in large part because the porn industry backed VHS (although THAT one isn't in the history books alongside the Sony/Consortium wars). DVD's? Driven by porn... c'mon, nobody has made a multi-angle in years, but porno had multi-angle on the VERY FIRST RELEASE! And broadband? C'mon something like 50% of the non-spam traffic on the 'net is PR0N!