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Originally Posted by videoworx
You have yet to show anyone is giving up any rights. The people that want to copy movies will continue to do so, just as they did with VHS and DVD - regardless of any laws (which have never been enforced on individual consumers).
The other 90+ percent of the movie-buying population won't give a shit about DRM. Ever.
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Please explain how Amazon MP3 was able to shoot to #2 most popular internet music store within a month of opening if 90% of media consumers don't "give a shit" about DRM. At first they don't care, but once they get screwed by it, they care and in a big way.
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The fact that I can drop a copy of a purchased Blu-Ray onto my iPod is awesome, but I'm not going to use if very often. If I ever decide to move my collection to a multi-TB server, I know the tools will exist for me to do so.
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If you plan to use it ever, you should probably do it relatively soon because Digital Copy is time limited. The recent releases with Digital Copy have download codes that expire in April 2009.
And, the tools that will allow you to do so cost $125, plus put you in that good old legal grey area.
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You're just whining because there's no simple solution to get BDs to work with your Zune, Windows Media Player, or Xbox. I wonder why.
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A nice attempt at a jab, but unsuccessful I'm afraid. Your Digital Copy solution actually works just fine with Windows Media Player and XBOX 360 as well since 360 supports streaming PlaysForSure DRM, and Digital Copy includes a WMP PlaysForSure copy. So if you are running Windows Media Center, BD Digital Copy will work fine with it. No, Digital Copy currently doesn't work with Zune or Sony PSP without using one of the available PlaysForSure DRM strippers, but that is not the main problem with managed copy being axed.
Aside from the fact that Digital Copy's quality is subpar to even DVD, Managed Copy allows for easy, 100% no questions asked legal copying of movies to media servers and the like without jumping through hoops. I fail to see how a below-SD DVD resolution copy that only works with certain devices compares to an HD-quality Managed Copy...