[geeks] Whee! Lightning strikes, AGAIN!

[Joshua Boyd]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 01:06:35PM -0400, nate at portents.com wrote:
> > If we standardized on a compressed cable...
> 
> <sigh>
> 
> This is what I get for rambling my fantasies of a DRM-free world and the
> types of wonderful equipment we could have... a sidetracked and
> misunderstood conversation with Firewire being called a "compressed
> cable"!  Heh.

FWIW, we had 2 DRM free standards, but sheepy customers started
accepting that they needed to upgrade to HDCP compliant gear.