NYCPHP Meetup

[George Schlossnagle]

On Mar 6, 2005, at 10:43 PM, Sol Toure wrote:

> Hi everyone.
>
> I've got the following error message trying to access movielink.com
> with MOZILLA browser:
>
> " Sorry, but in order to enjoy the Movielink service you must use
> Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher, which supports certain technologies
> we utilize for downloading movies. Click here to get the latest
> version of Internet Explorer.
> We do not support Mozilla or Netscape. We apologize for any
> inconvenience this may cause."
>
> OT but I thought I'd ask you guyz opinion on it.

What's the point of having an opinion on it?  They've cut off roughly 
13% of their potential users.  Hopefully (for them) they weighed their 
options before they did so.  In their case, it seems that they used 
DRM'd media that's only supported on Windows.  Whether or that was a 
stupid decision on their part is their own calculus.  Us debating the 
wisdom of it is rather pointless.

George