nasadude
join:2001-10-05
Rockville, MD
 ·Comcast
| Re: In order for it to succeed.. said by G_Poobah  :Ok, everyone says 'on demand' and 'protected'. That's just another word for rip-off. What do I, the consumer expect? #1: It must save me money.. I'm with you on that one, but my desires are a little different:
I am willing to pay $10-12 for a first run (eg, War of the Worlds), one-time view, HD video file that I can watch on my HD tv. They can have DRM, but not this crap that makes you watch it within a certain period of time; if I download it and it's a week before I watch it, so be it. Once I'm done watching it can disappear, but not until then.
This is why DRM is doomed to failure - it can't possibly cover all the different desires of customers. Represented here are just two, widely differing desires; how many more variations are out there that would have to be satisfied to make a customer buy?
If the movie industry doesn't get it's sh1t together, they gonna be gone soon.
BTW, I don't go to movies anymore, I rarely rent DVDs and I never buy DVDs. I watch movies when they come out on cable/sat...or, when I start being able to download them. |
