DivX ;-) Is Now A Stupid Corporate MegaConglomerate.

danielwang · Post by **danielwang** » Thu Jul 24, 2003 5:24 pm

Is it just me, or is it that everyone and anyone is trying to make lots of money now?

It looks like Divx (no more wink or info on the old DivX) has a corporate page with fancy diagrams, products that cost money, and all sorts of industry strangleholds now (DivX is, of course, a proprietary format). Typical corporation. If it weren't for XviD, it'd be a DivX monopoly.

And get this - DivX (aka DivsuX) now *SUCKS*. Not only has development slowed, there's not DRM (Deluxe Reaming Mechanism) in the DivSucks player. DRM could mean only one thing - Dumb Retarded Morons.
The installer even adds a "Try Dr Divx for FREE!" shortcut on your desktop without asking - like AOHELL.

Sure, Microsoft is a even bigger megaconglomerate with a even more proprietary standard, measured by number of patents. But they are developer and consumer freindly and include flexibility such as the options to disable "Acquire licenses automatically for protected content", etc. DivX player is rumoured by some to send serial numbers for "fingerpinting" content.

It's times like these I actually agree with GPL and Open Source.

JUST SAY NO TO DRM

danielwang · Post by **danielwang** » Thu Jul 24, 2003 5:28 pm

OpenDivX and Project Mayo was a good idea.

Jordan Greenhall's vision of

DivsuX Doesn'tworks wrote: We will become the dominant provider of products, infrastructure, and services needed to mediate the rapidly converging video media industry. We will accomplish this by: Owning and deploying the Open Video System, a next-generation content delivery system that provides unsurpassed aggregation, promotion and distribution of video content.
Continually evolving our software technologies, such as the DivX codec, our proprietary integrated Digital Rights Management (DRM) solution consisting of encryption, key management, and two kinds of watermarking; and our comprehensive distribution software

That's just plain aggressive.

EarthCurrent · Post by **EarthCurrent** » Thu Jul 24, 2003 5:56 pm

Were you beaten as a child?

Roke · Post by **Roke** » Thu Jul 24, 2003 6:09 pm

EarthCurrent wrote:Were you beaten as a child?

Danielwang: NO, BUT THE EVIL MEGACONGLOMERATES WERE.