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The Economist slams DRM
"Belatedly, music executives have come to realise that DRM simply doesn't work. It is supposed to stop unauthorised copying, but no copy-protection system has yet been devised that cannot be easily defeated. All it does is make life difficult for paying customers, while having little or no effect on clandestine copying plants that churn out pirate copies."
The real piracy issue facing the movie industry isn't Joe Q. Consumer ripping DVDs onto his home media box of choice, but Johnny Piratepants selling counterfeit DVDs in flea markets. Will we ever teach the industry to love thier customers, instead of holding us at arms length and treating us as de facto criminals?
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Subscribe to commentsThunkDifferent.comApr 30th 2007 2:21PM
"Johnny Piratepants" Nice. It is pretty ridiculous when you go abroad and see that all the software you crave and music you desire is sold on the street for a few yuan or pesos. Granted the tech stuff is usually a little dated, but the music and movies, they come out on the street before they hit the theaters these days. imagine if they get to the point to release live music before its played. whoa - piratepants got game.
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Jamie DavidoffApr 30th 2007 9:13PM
I’ve read dozens of articles on DRM in traditional print media, on tech websites and of course comments on various forums. This is only the second time I’ve seen mention the point that consumers are forced to rebuy the same content over and over again every time a platform becomes technologically obsolete.
To me this is the crux of the flaw in the entertainment industries strategy. They defend their right to restrict customers use of their product with DRM by saying that it is the intellectual content (i.e., movie or music etc. ) that they are selling, not platform on which it is provided. Well if you turn that argument around on them, then we should not have to pay full price when we buy a DVD to replace when replacing a scratched or damaged DVD. The cost of the replacement media is all we should have to pay for a new DVD.
As far as music goes if you purchased a vinyl record album, then purchased the same tile in the 8-Track format, and then the cassette format, and then again the CD; the industry has collected full price for the same content four times. I never much liked this cliché but basically they want to have their cake and eat it too.
hazardMay 1st 2007 12:02AM
The real piracy issue facing the movie industry .. is the son/daughter of Joe Q. Consumer getting movies using bittorrent so he doesn't have to buy them anymore ..
hazardMay 1st 2007 12:10AM
The real piracy issue facing the movie industry .. is the son/daughter of Joe Q. Consumer getting movies using bittorrent so he doesn't have to buy them anymore ..
CrayshMay 1st 2007 12:21AM
@hazard
You really don't know what you're taking about.
If a movie is good people will pay to see it (yes, even people who download movies) and they'll make a lot of money for the movie companies.
If a movie is bad (which has been the vast majority of movies lately) it loses money and they blame it on piracy.
It's just a way to cover their asses when they make a shitty movie and lose cash on it.
I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to blame Gigli on Piracy.
hazardMay 1st 2007 11:20PM
@Craysh .. you are only emphasising how little you understand .. a successful [blockbuster] movie is probably more pirated than an unsuccessful movie. I'm merely pointing out that bittorrent will [if not already] provide the biggest propagation of movie piracy.
afboschMay 5th 2007 9:09PM
@Craysh
i find you are the one that does not understand
why should people pay good money for trash hoywood seem to be makeing now days, even the music is really starting to suck-
@Craysh
and how a bout people who bought the video or music cd, so you would ban then from protecting ther invest, by makeing a back up
maybe you have not notice @Craysh , cd and dcd scatch easy, but then you o busy writing to notice