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way at the Digital Video Broadcasters’ forum, they told me, “Well,
it’s different in Europe: mostly they’re worried that some Ameri-
can company like Microsoft will get their claws into European
television.”
American film studios didn’t want the Japanese electronics
companies to get a piece of the movie pie, so they fought the
VCR. Today, everyone who makes movies agrees that they don’t
want to let you guys get between them and their customers.
Sony didn’t get permission. Neither should you. Go build the
record player that can play everyone’s records.
Because if you don’t do it, someone else will.
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