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Re: Piracy should be stamped out; not competed with said by fAcEtIOUs:The tech media likes to focus on whether Cinemanow can compete with services from major operators like Apple and Amazon - or whether users will flock to on-line downloads. The real question the industry should be asking is: can these services compete with piracy? . And why should the industry have to tolerate competing with piracy. Piracy should be stamped out like any other criminal enterprise. Just because it is hard to stamp out doesn't mean that it shouldn't be. I see what you're getting at TK. The question, that needs to be addressed and should be asked by costumers : Why is this industry insistent on treating all purchasers as pirates? As is presently being done.
In this case why should one buy a DVD crippled by DRM or limited by region.? Why can't I take my legally purchased DVD's with me on vacation to Germany or where ever or purchase a DVD overseas and not have the ability to play it at home, here in the U.S.?
A DVD is a DVD is a DVD, is it not? WTF is the difference where that DVD is purchased.
Piracy will always be around in one form or another. However that being said. The MPAA/RIAA, bah the entire industry is responsible for the explosion of P2P, IMO. How long did they believe the action of biting the hand that feeds them would last, until that very same hand, becomes the hand that slaps them.?
This service is doomed for failure right from the get go. Why? Well having an announced 6% failure rate right from the launch is terrible. That negative 6 % is going to snowball quickly, both by word of mouth and internet forums such as BBR.
One only gets one chance to make a good impression, and they just F'ed it up royally, and no amount of spin will correct this IMO.
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CinemaNow meanwhile lauds itself as the only major label service legally offering a burn-to-DVD option, and after the report, went into damage control mode. A company spokesman insisted that internal tests showed the DVDs worked on "94 percent of DVD players," and that CinemaNow had not received complaints from customers or movie studios since launching the service
Note bold-ed text.Why would the movie studios complain, as long as they get their cut. In all likely hood the studios don't give a rats azz. IMO the customer service response to those affect 6% will be , tough luck, go purchase an approved DVD burner and re-purchase the movie 
People ARE fighting back the DRM restrictions, by using the only and most successful option available to them - P2P
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