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Smoking Gun -- DVD WAR SALVO? Re: IP: ZDNet News Is PlayStation2 a military weapon
From: David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 07:13:30 -0400
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 23:50:00 -0700 To: farber () cis upenn edu From: Ted Nelson <ted () xanadu net> Dave, Seems like it's about war, all right. Note that the last paragraph of the article states,Last month [Sony] said it had found the game player could be used to watch digital video disk software sold overseas in breach of a worldwide agreement among DVD player makers.That looks like the smoking gun to me. Best, Ted At 06:38 AM 4/17/00 -0400, you wrote:http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2550857,00.htmlIs PlayStation2 a military weapon? Japan thinks the game machine could be used to guide missiles -- so the country is leveling export controls. By Reuters UPDATED April 16, 2000 8:21 AM PT TOKYO -- Japan has slapped export controls on Sony Corp.'s new, hugely popular Playstation2 video game because the machine is so sophisticated it could be used for military purposes, media said Sunday. The hit home game machine, which includes a digital video disc player and will eventually offer Internet access, is Sony's most profitable product. The company said it had shipped 1.4 million in the month after the game's <snip>_________________________________________ Theodor Holm Nelson Project Professor, Keio University SFC Campus, Fujisawa, Japan Visiting Professor, University of Southampton, England e-mail: ted () xanadu net world-wide fax 1/415/332-0136 http://www.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~ted/ http://www.xanadu.net Coordinates in USA Tel. 415/ 331-4422 Project Xanadu, 3020 Bridgeway #295, Sausalito CA 94965 _________________________________________
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