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hollwood and digital movies. DRM Shackles.

posted by [personal profile] maelorin at 08:32pm on 26/07/2006 under , , , , , ,
Hollywood agrees to burning DVD issue
Dawn Chmielewski (July 20, 2006 - 10:36AM)

Hollywood studios will cross a significant technological and psychological frontier this week when they offer the first downloadable movies that can be legally burned to a DVD.
Psychological maybe. Technological. Bittorrent anyone? *sigh*

Coupled with the CinemaNow agreement, a deal with Apple would cement the internet as a viable distribution vehicle.

The Internet is already a "viable distribution vehicle."

Stupid corporates.

Although studios have offered online movies since 2002, piracy fears have kept them locked to computer hard drives. That restriction has limited the market for legal downloads.

No. Their stupid paranoia has prevented them from selling their own product to us ... wasn't as if we couldn't, nor wouldn't, accept movies digitally.

CinemaNow's service employs relatively new anti-piracy technology, which prevents the burned DVD from being recopied. Because that technology is still being tested, the initial batch of titles [are] what's left "at the video store when you arrive too late and the shelves are picked clean".

*sigh* DRM.
Mood:: 'annoyed' annoyed
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posted by [identity profile] verdigriis.livejournal.com at 05:24am on 27/07/2006
*Waves fists in air indignantly*

So they still don't want us to copy the DVD afterwards? WTF? When will they just relax, stop wasting money on DRM that either a) doesn't work or b) does work and drives away customers, and then sell us what we want to buy?

I was thinking about this the other day. If I buy a book or a DVD for that matter, I can use it over and over again, I can loan it to all of my friends, it's in a convenient format that I can store without worrying about imminent hard drive failure or constant format changes and I can sell it on after I'm done with it. Certainly digital media make the possible scale of the activities terrifying ("my friends" that I loan it to could number in the hundreds of thousands) but trying to sell us a stripped down product for the same price as the hard copy is just insulting.
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posted by [personal profile] maelorin at 12:36pm on 27/07/2006
the heart of the problem is that corporates can see a way to make us pay them for every exchange of a product, long after they've ceased to have had any role in it. zero cost, pure profit is the corporate dream. and they can smell it in their own lifetimes.

thing is, we - the "consumers" - don't want that shite. but they don't care. as far as they're concerned, they do us a service, and we cought to be thankful for the shite they serve up to us.

things just might get very ugly before they get sane again.
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posted by [personal profile] maelorin at 12:39pm on 27/07/2006
also, they don't seem to realise (or care) that the ability to share a product enables the best free advertising they have. after all, no one can buy something if they don't know it exists. but they so fixated on their really clever propaganda machines that they don't even see this.
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