Guspaz
Guspaz
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join:2001-11-05
Montreal, QC
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| Re: Good Online Movie Store The point is that the existing infrastructure is in place (and in USE) to deliver any sort of content, HD or SD. They just need to monetize the EXISTING (BitTorrent) infrastructure rather than coming up with new complicated, limited, and DRM'd solutions.
Imagine a legitimate movie store structured like a private tracker. Log into the site, download the torrent (And your account is charged), and it seamlessly allows you onto the tracker because the torrent file you downloaded includes a unique ID in the announce URL that uniquely identifies you securely.
It'd be so easy to implement (I could set up an entire movie/tv/music store in a few days, alone), and could be wildly popular due to the ease of use. But they don't want to do it that way, they want to force us to use THEIR store, THEIR software, THEIR players, THEIR drm, and follow THEIR restrictions. They just don't get it. People are willing to PAY for the content if they make it seamless enough, but people aren't AS willing to pay for it if you make them jump through hoops and follow arbitrary restrictions. If I buy a movie online, I want it to play on my computer, (any) portable media player, and TV. Apple is trying to move towards that with the iTV, but that forces me to buy an (expensive!) piece of hardware just to get it on the TV when I already have my own ways of getting it there. Apple won't let me transcode that video for somebody else's media player, or to burn it to a DVD to play in my DVD player, or whatever else.
The sad thing about DRM is that it only punishes the people who pay for it. Pirates will download DRM-free pirated copies, the only people getting DRM are those who purchase the stuff. So, somehow, we've come into a situation where pirates have a less annoying experience with content than people who PAID for it.
So, to sum up my arguments:
1) Bandwidth is "free" if only they'd leverage existing infrastructure (BitTorrent)
2) More people would pay for content if it was easier to use and didn't require specific custom software (ie, opensource BitTorrent clients versus iTunes Store)
3) DRM only hurts people who pay for content, not pirates |
