Fred von Lohmann explains Why Would MS Do Hollywood’s Bidding?:
In sum, it’s classical economics — on one side you have a supplier cartel with market power (Hollywood), on the other side you have several competing technology platform providers (Microsoft, the major CE companies, etc) each eager to get picked by the cartel (and thereby gain competitive advantage over those not picked).
Unmentioned, there is a technology platform (broadly speaking) that is incapable of doing the intellectual protectionist lobby’s bidding: free software.
Fred says “consumers will inevitably lose.” Not if we demand free software.
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