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Superman @ Feb 15th 2007 4:37PM
Blah, blah, blah! DRM SUCKS!!! I don't pay for DRM, I pay for the music and the movies and I'm TIRED of efforts to keep me from being able to back-up my own collection. I have a TV and a computer and a receiver that all use either component video or DVI connection, but NO, now we have HDMI. And WHY? All because they want to close the so-called "analog gap". HDMI isn't any better than component for video and coax for audio, but it allows them to address DRM keys and control content. So, I've got to upgrade my TV, my receiver and my computer to us HDMI if I wanna do Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. It sucks and all for what? The MICRO amount that is traded online. They alienate SO MANY users, legitimate users so they can shut down the TINY amount that trade in illegal stuff. If you compare the amount of DVDs sold versus the amount of movies traded illegally it is a drop in the bucket! They are SO greedy! They sell DVDs for $20 and $30, yet it only cost about $1 for the entire DVD, that includes the disk, the box and any other packaging. So they are making millions, BILLIONS of dollars and yet, that isn't enough, no... they will spend millions of dollars that come from legitimate sales (read: profits from US) to include this DRM crap that keeps out so many users, Macintosh users, Linux users, and anyone not using the latest version of Windows. They are greedy and deserve for someone to hack their DRM and allow *someone* to enjoy the product without their crappy DRM.
John @ Feb 16th 2007 3:34AM
Just so we're clear -- those movies you watch are made by companies that employ people. They cost a lot of money to make (not just a dollar for the DVD processing). They cost nearly as much money to market. Just like it cost money for SlySoft to produce their product. The point that Mike and I are making is that SlySoft should be OK with people not paying for their product, right?
Think of it this way -- did you like The Insider or The Life Aquatic? What about The Prestige? The Village was a pretty great movie. I quite liked The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 25th Hour is one of my favorites, as is The Royal Tenenbaums and High Fidelity. Disney is taking Touchstone Studios from ten or twelve movies a year to one or two, so those movies, all Touchstone productions, have a much slimmer chance of getting made now. Slackening DVD sales have a lot to do with that decision, according to Bob Iger. Does any of that have to do with trading movies over the internet? I think it does.
Don't feel sorry for the studios, but don't think that your actions don't have an affect on the movies you love to watch. Pay for the things you like, and they'll make more of them. Don't pay for those things? They won't make them any more. Simple as that.