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Originally Posted by ganthc
And it's that sense of entitlement that I guess that gets me to disagree. I'm sure there are plenty that think they are entitled to not have to pay for movies or music. I think a happy medium has been struck as it is right now, where studios don't put a divx type scheme for watching our movies, and in turn the majority of the public watches their movies on disc in their players per its intended setup. If because of piracy the studios allow for managed copy to be used later on, then great. They can put that into place.
What gives me chills, Ruined, is this all or nothing attitude towards DRM. Studios won't let you make copies from the bd discs, well, you are all in favor of dumping 1080p and lossless sound to get a compressed lossy 720p movie that is anti-ownership, since you pay per viewing. Seems to me that if anyone is advocating a return to a divx style model, it would be the push to have your movie collection available only to you at $5 per viewing.
To me, I'd just as soon keep the status quo rather than seeing us forced into 720p/DD tracks of movies that we have to spend $5 at a time to view. Where's the freedom in that?  |
Maybe it is just my age, but I grew up in a time when you were easily able to make copies of stuff that you bought. CE companies even built devices that did this for you. That has changed, and not for the better.
Now we are paying more money for stuff with more restrictions. Yeah, obviously the quality has massively increased, but on the same token consumer friendliness has also massively decreased.
I have quite a few good ideas for how this can be remedied, and technologies like Managed Copy plays into some of them. I'll post more later about it.