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Re: Why is Microsoft watching us watch DVD movies?
From: Just Marc <marc () corky net>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 16:45:56 +0200
| In my opinion the above information are not sufficient to generate profiles | about individuals, although they allow the generation of general statistics. | But this is rather normal for a database service. ;) It is not normal in this case, because the database is certainly *not* needed, The user knows what DVD is in his drive, the chapters are mapped, menued and named. There is absolutely no need for accessing an external db. Therefore it smells like they are doing it for their own statistics which I don't think is just, especially because the user cannot turn this behaviour off, It should be the choice of the user, and it should be turned off per default. bye, Marc. -- marc @ corky.net fingerprint = D1F0 5689 967F B87A 98EB C64D 256A D6BF 80DE 6D3C /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML Mail / \
Current thread:
- Why is Microsoft watching us watch DVD movies? Richard M. Smith (Feb 20)
- Re: Why is Microsoft watching us watch DVD movies? Jamie Oulman (Feb 21)
- Re: Why is Microsoft watching us watch DVD movies? Patrick M. Hausen (Feb 21)
- Re: Why is Microsoft watching us watch DVD movies? Konrad Rieck (Feb 23)
- Re: Why is Microsoft watching us watch DVD movies? Just Marc (Feb 24)
- Re: Why is Microsoft watching us watch DVD movies? Konrad Rieck (Feb 26)
- RE: Why is Microsoft watching us watch DVD movies? Richard M. Smith (Feb 27)
- Re: Why is Microsoft watching us watch DVD movies? Konrad Rieck (Feb 23)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Why is Microsoft watching us watch DVD movies? Russ (Feb 27)