Bill Gates on "anti-consumer" Blu-ray

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Gameguru Mania News - Oct,18 2005 -

Bill Gates on "anti-consumer" Blu-ray - briefly
(hx) 05:13 PM CEST - Oct,18 2005 - Post a comment
Daily Princetonian has posted an interview with Bill Gates (thanks ArsTechnica) as he shares his views on a number of things, including the next-gen optical format battle. The interview covers a number of topics, but what caught my eye were Gates' comments on Blu-ray versus HD DVD:

Gates: Well, the key issue here is that the protection scheme under Blu-ray is very anti-consumer and there's not much visibility of that. The inconvenience is that the [movie] studios got too much protection at the expense consumers [sic] and it won't work well on PCs. You won't be able to play movies and do software in a flexible way.

It's not the physical format that we have the issue with, it's that the protection scheme on Blu is very anti-consumer. If [the Blu-ray group] would fix that one thing, you know, that'd be fine.

Ed.note: Obviously this has zero to do with protecting anyone's right to copy anything. This has everything to do with Xbox vs. PS3. Gates needs to protect the 360 at all costs...I guess everything that MS is DRMing is pro consumer too.

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