Nothing has fundamentally changed. They merely decided to exercise the control that they’ve always had over your DRM’d media. I’m happily using Amazon’s DRM-free MP3 store. Until such a store is available for movies, I’ll be getting my movies elsewhere.
At the point it becomes more difficult to use purchased media than pirated media, people will flock to the other medium. Path of least resistance.
I’m all for purchasing media, making sure that the content owner gets paid, but when you purchase a movie (or purchase the rights to watch a movie), you shouldn’t be restricted to what display you get to watch it on.
I’m a firm believer in paying for goods, but that doesn’t mean I have to agree with the “license” that the goods come with.
I’ll happily purchase TV shows and movies off of iTunes.
To do so now is still cheaper than a Dish Network/ DirectTV subscription.
Since we use ?tv’s in our house to watch content, it hasn’t been an issue.
However,
I also have a subscription to Netflix, and have — on several occasions — ripped a DVD of the same movie that I’ve bought when the format available from iTunes didn’t meet my needs (or for backup).
(Or download the file off of BitTorrent.)
I don’t see a problem with doing that at all.
(1) I’ve already “purchased” the content.
(2) The content wasn’t provided to me in a usable format.
(3) I sought out a usable format on my own, and under my own devices.
The record companies and movie studios can “bite my shiny metal ass” (as Bender would say).
That is why nobody should buy INTEL. AMD is better and cheaper although you have to wait for DDR3 to be accepted by AMD.
And as far as McBooks and Apple goes. They didnt advertise it because it would declines sales before X-mass especially and in general was such a dick move. Watch it just as silently they implemented DRM, just as silently they will remove it.
Nothing has fundamentally changed. They merely decided to exercise the control that they’ve always had over your DRM’d media. I’m happily using Amazon’s DRM-free MP3 store. Until such a store is available for movies, I’ll be getting my movies elsewhere.
Gotta love it when an “anti-copying” measure actually increases pirating of content. Well done indeed.
At the point it becomes more difficult to use purchased media than pirated media, people will flock to the other medium. Path of least resistance.
I’m all for purchasing media, making sure that the content owner gets paid, but when you purchase a movie (or purchase the rights to watch a movie), you shouldn’t be restricted to what display you get to watch it on.
They just don’t get it…
@ Web Major:
I’m pretty sure the day Napster came online the path of least resistance presented itself.
The approach of the record labels is the problem. They’re assuming that regular consumers are the ones spreading the pirated content, and they’re not.
I’m a firm believer in paying for goods, but that doesn’t mean I have to agree with the “license” that the goods come with.
I’ll happily purchase TV shows and movies off of iTunes.
To do so now is still cheaper than a Dish Network/ DirectTV subscription.
Since we use ?tv’s in our house to watch content, it hasn’t been an issue.
However,
I also have a subscription to Netflix, and have — on several occasions — ripped a DVD of the same movie that I’ve bought when the format available from iTunes didn’t meet my needs (or for backup).
(Or download the file off of BitTorrent.)
I don’t see a problem with doing that at all.
(1) I’ve already “purchased” the content.
(2) The content wasn’t provided to me in a usable format.
(3) I sought out a usable format on my own, and under my own devices.
The record companies and movie studios can “bite my shiny metal ass” (as Bender would say).
yeah…
apple looks like microsoft today,
and every one knows, they leopard is full of bugs and crashes over and over…
That is why nobody should buy INTEL. AMD is better and cheaper although you have to wait for DDR3 to be accepted by AMD.
And as far as McBooks and Apple goes. They didnt advertise it because it would declines sales before X-mass especially and in general was such a dick move. Watch it just as silently they implemented DRM, just as silently they will remove it.
@ Web Major:
I agree.
“At the point it becomes more difficult to use purchased media than pirated media, people will flock to the other medium.”
It’s somewhat absurd that obsessive security prevents what a reasonable customer would consider “fair use”.