HMS1
join:2006-01-14
Austin, TX
| That may be the hidden agenda with the download service as a whole - "pay the same and get less". Same goes for the online DRM music shops: less quality, less packaging and more restrictions than CDs, but about the same price.
With the DVD burning in particular, tho, I wonder whether it's more incompetence than evil. I suspect that the movie people have no clue about technology and get suckered by snake-oil DRM vendors. "We can make it so they can burn only one DVD!" - "OK, here's a pile of money!"
Anyone who knows how the tech works could see this was going to be a travesty one way or another. If it will play reliably in a standard player, it's copyable; if uncopyable it won't work reliably in a standard player. So they introduce a lot of errors to make it barely play? It's amazing that something so dumb would even be sold. If the company cared about customers they'd sue the DRM hucksters for a refund.
Maybe after exhausting all other alternatives, they'll finally just lower prices and find that they make more money. |
