DOS stuurde deze link naar een artikel van Wired News, over een aantal Japanse fabrikanten die de release van hun DVD videospelers hebben uitgesteld na de kraak van de DVD copyright protection:
Japanese digital video disc (DVD) manufacturers were forced to postpone the launch of long-awaited new audio equipment after a European hacker broke open the copyright protection of DVDs and raised new piracy fears.Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. postponed the launch of DVD audio/video players by about six months to next May or June, while Victor Co. of Japan plans to withhold the release of its new equipment for an unspecified period.
Pioneer Corp. is also considering postponing the release of new equipment scheduled to debut for later this month.
The incident jolted the DVD industry which has just started to see sales of DVD players pick up after a slow start and was preparing for a major push to begin marketing DVDs as a better alternative to conventional music compact disks (CDs).