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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.

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.