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Re: How Sad said by gorehound:This is why I hate SONY and all these other MPAA Bastards.They will pay for this just like the RIAA will for their shit. I have stopped buying any new movies from Hollywood or MPAA Stooges.I will now only buy new movies used so they will not get a dime out of me. Wish I could make a network in Portland Maine. Sony in a nutshell:
Lets invest millions to make each device we make use a different format of a memory card.
Lets invest more millions into DRM that will be useless to the general consumer, but to prevent a few consumers from making a copy of it.
**AA in a nutshell:
Lets send take down notices to ANYONE without any actual investigations, which includes printers.
Lets harass the elderly and young.
All this trouble all because they don't want to keep up with the technology and move all their content online. I can't understand why not. If its online then you don't have to pay for materials, which in turn could be paid to the sysadmins/servers to support this AND once you actually have the groundwork in place its easy money. |
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zipjay
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| Because if they put the content online people wont pay as much as if it was on DVD. Know anyone who would pay 15.99 to see a movie on their computer once? And if its downloadable then at that point you might as well get the DVD so you will have a backup in case of harddrive failure. A DVD can be ripped/copied over and over, a file on the other hand is only good until the drive its on dies |
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| said by zipjay:Because if they put the content online people wont pay as much as if it was on DVD. Know anyone who would pay 15.99 to see a movie on their computer once? And if its downloadable then at that point you might as well get the DVD so you will have a backup in case of harddrive failure. A DVD can be ripped/copied over and over, a file on the other hand is only good until the drive its on dies That is a common myth. DVDs are made from plastic which can become scratched or cracked which will make them unreadable in players. Even if you treat them like your newborn, the laser can wear down the material.
And I didn't say that people should pay 15.99 to watch it once. But, that 15.99 is part material costs, part distributing costs. You could probably knock that down to $5-10 easy to watch a movie once. If the quality was good, I am sure a number of people who pirate movies today would buy it.
If you have a DRM free file then you can throw it in a RAID which means that media will probably never disappear. |
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said by zipjay:Because if they put the content online people wont pay as much as if it was on DVD. Know anyone who would pay 15.99 to see a movie on their computer once? And if its downloadable then at that point you might as well get the DVD so you will have a backup in case of harddrive failure. A DVD can be ripped/copied over and over, a file on the other hand is only good until the drive its on dies Actually what about $25 to rent a movie?
»consumerist.com/5402972/sony-hun···-a-movie
I really do wonder what their thought process it. |
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