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Digital Hollywood - The Computer as Entertainment Device
Posted by Ernest Miller on Saturday, October 05 @ 11:32:28 EDT News
A month ago, LawMeme took a look at the description of panels for a major conference, Digital Hollywood (Hollywood's Secret Agenda Revealed). Needless to say, LawMeme was under the distinct impression that the panelists had lost their tickets for the cluetrain. Now cluetrain conductor Doc Searls, senior editor for Linux Journal and author of the Suitwatch newsletter, provides his impressions of the conference (The Real Battle). Despite the apocalyptic visions and warfare terminology deployed by the copyright industry Doc Searls remained optimistic:
But I feared no evil. No, not only because Linux was with me but because Linux was with the audience--whether they knew it or not. Technologists--of which there were approximately none in attendance--put it there.
Metajournalist JD Lasica (see, JD's Blog) also has some interesting perspectives on the conference (Digital Hollywood). He definitely managed to get the best quote of all from Brad Hunt, CTO of the MPAA, summing up the challenge facing the entertainment and computing industries:
How do you make the PC a trusted entertainment appliance?
Donna Wentworth has a response in Copyfight (Q: When is a PC Like a Toaster? A: When It's Your Job to Make It Like One.).
 
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Re: Digital Hollywood - The Computer as Entertainment Device (Score: 0)
by Anonymous on Saturday, October 05 @ 15:39:05 EDT
How do you make a PC a trusted entertainment device?

You don't, because if you do it is no longer a PC.


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