for a minute if Kodak had a Kodak Industry Ass of America to look after them.
Instead of Kodak going into Chapter 11 there would have long since been a US act stating that anyone caught using a digital camera is a pirate, supporter of terrorism and a child abuser.
Sales of photo scanners unapproved by KIAA (and not phoning home for permission for each scan) would have been prohibited.
Every scanned photo would have been wrapped in a DRM layer prohibiting further copying without obtaining a licence from Kodak and removal of these restrictions would have been a felony.
The US ISP would be blocking every JPG on every website unless it was digitally watermarked and signed by Kodak.
Kodak would have taken over MS and Apple and the latest rumours would be that the next iPad will come with a pinhole camera box and a pack of B&W negative glass plates as standard.
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for a minute if Kodak had a Kodak Industry Ass of America to look after them.
Instead of Kodak going into Chapter 11 there would have long since been a US act stating that anyone caught using a digital camera is a pirate, supporter of terrorism and a child abuser.
Sales of photo scanners unapproved by KIAA (and not phoning home for permission for each scan) would have been prohibited.
Every scanned photo would have been wrapped in a DRM layer prohibiting further copying without obtaining a licence from Kodak and removal of these restrictions would have been a felony.
The US ISP would be blocking every JPG on every website unless it was digitally watermarked and signed by Kodak.
Kodak would have taken over MS and Apple and the latest rumours would be that the next iPad will come with a pinhole camera box and a pack of B&W negative glass plates as standard.