Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!outbound!alec_vondjidis From: alec_vondjidis@outbound.wimsey.bc.ca (Alec Vondjidis) Message-ID: Organization: Outbound Communications Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: CDTV & CD-I The Whole Picture Date: 25 Apr 91 04:20:39 PDT >In article >roger_earl@outbound.wimsey.bc.ca (Roger Earl) writes: > >> CD rental places are not about >>to pop up all over the place anytime soon. It was video tape rentals that >>killed Beta, not home user sales. Interactive CDs will be a purchase war, >>not rental. > >I don't know about the situation in USA. But here, video shops also >rent audio CDs from the same shelves as video cassettes. So this >marketing aspect applies to interactive CDs identically, I think. > >-- >Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // E-Mail to \\ Only my personal >opinions... >Commodore Frankfurt, Germany \X/ >{uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk Do you mean to say that there will be CD *SOFTWARE* Rentals allowed in Europe? I though European countries were generally stricter than the US or Canada when it came to software piracy. As far as I know, software rentals have been stopped (severelly curtailed?) in the US, because they were so vulnerable to piracy. Are they/will they still (be) allowed in Germany? Regards ___ ___ /\ | | | GEnie: P.VONDJIDIS1 /__\ | |-- | Usenet: alec_vondjidis@outbound.wimsey.bc.ca / \ |___ |___ |___