Cunning Dutch Royalty Avoidance Innovation Hits Trouble

The Register reports that a Dutch company's cunning innovation to deliver DVD movies to customers' TV sets digitally, without having to pay additional functioning rights has already encounter trouble. DVDStream's partner Homelink - the Danish manufacturer of the Palmbutler 600 set-top box - has gone into receivership together with may non hold out able to deliver the hardware on time. DVDStream was planning to deliver movies through Palmbutler 600, a set-top box that streams digital media to TVs together with stereos inwards the home. The Dutch start-up claimed that past times adopting a DVD rental sales model, it wouldn't bring to pay for royalties that are imposed on regular streaming video or video-on-demand services. The consider was that customers would buy a DVD motion-picture exhibit digitally together with brand a re-create of it for their personal role (which is patently legal inwards the Netherlands). After watching the movie, the client would sell the motion-picture exhibit dorsum to DVDStream. This way, the payments for the movies would bring been exclusively temporary deposits, the companionship claimed, together with the service would non bring to pay extra royalties. Although experts flora it highly doubtful that the service would rest online for long, it may non forthwith move on later on all. DVDStream says it is looking for alternatives, including products from Hauppauge or Pinnacle, precisely none of these bring been able to deliver the features the Palmbutler laid top-box was able to offer. DVDStream withal hopes it tin launch inwards August.

is most impressed at the ingenuity of this scheme, the legitimacy of which DVD producers volition hold out certain to exam inwards the courts in i lawsuit it's introduced. Even if copyright is non infringed, at that spot is no guarantee that this system would non autumn foul of the police delineate of unfair competition.

Video streaming here and here
Videos close streams here, here, here and here