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03-06-2012, 02:37 AM | #1 |
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Warner Bros. Embarrasses Self, Everyone, With New “Disc-to-Digital” Program
"Tsujihara described this process as allowing consumers to convert their libraries “easily, safely and at reasonable prices.”
You did read that last paragraph correctly. The head of Warner Home Entertainment Group thinks that an easy, safe way to convert movies you already own on DVD to other digital formats is to take your DVDs, find a store that will perform this service, drive to that store, find the clerk who knows how to perform the service, hope that the “DVD conversion machine” is not broken, stand there like a chump while the clerk “safely” converts your movie to a digital file that may only play on studio-approved devices, drive home, and hope everything worked out. Oh, and the good news is that you would only need to pay a reasonable (per-DVD?) price for this pleasure." "Although they may pay some lip service to wanting to prevent piracy – a claim that is undermined by the fact that they argue in any forum available that piracy of motion pictures is already rampant – it really is about charging customers again. Why let customers make legitimate personal copies of movies they own at home when you could charge them to do it at a store?" http://www.publicknowledge.org/blog/...ew-%E2%80%9Cdi the article nails it: its not about piracy, its about getting you to pay for your movies/books/games/cds again. no wonder they will defend drm until their dying breath. the ebook market is no different. they want you to buy, rebuy and keep rebuying the same books over and over and over. they don't make any money if you can just convert your ebooks. Last edited by xg4bx; 03-06-2012 at 02:40 AM. |
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Seems to me that film studios are "damned if they do, and damned if they don't". Isn't it a good thing that they are offering a digital transfer service? You don't really expect that service to be free, do you? Last edited by HarryT; 03-06-2012 at 02:53 AM. |
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Or how about offering a link in the original DVD packaging? Someone buys a copy of the DVD and an insert in the packaging gives the link with a unique key that you register to yourself (so it can't be used by someone else later) and which you can then use to access the digital copy that is included in the sale price of the physical DVD.
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They already do that for some Blueray discs (provide a link for a digital download). I got the Jurassic Park trilology, and they provided 3 extra DVDs inside the pack, with a link to the Universal webpage. Once there you register, and you can download a digital version of the film.
While I am happy that they've made an effort to provide a digital download version, they are only of the films themselves, and the extra content is not available. The quality is also pretty sad, not even on par with DVD.... But it's better than nothing, I suppose. |
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03-06-2012, 05:31 AM | #8 |
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03-06-2012, 05:50 AM | #9 |
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It's like buying downloads or information on Ebay, it's aimed at people who don't know how to do it themself or can't be bothered doing it. It's not as if it will affect anyone else, so it's really no different to paying someone to clean your windows or do your dusting.
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03-06-2012, 05:54 AM | #10 |
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It's a perfectly valid idea as long as they don't use the existence of this sort of service as justification to make personal backups at home illegal.
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Even ripping CDs is illegal in the UK! (Although the record companies have said they have no intention of trying to enforce this.) |
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Its not like anyone's ever been prosecuted for it, especially not the part about filing malicious takedowns. |
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03-06-2012, 07:31 AM | #13 | |
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As an alternative, how about a user registery? I have a disk, I log on to their web site, register, and they download a tool. The tool decrypts and watermarks my disk to a clear DVD file set. (It might even offer some of the lower quality video formats.) They are required to maintain the registry for the length of the copyright. If they stop maintianing the registry, their works go P.D. I now have legal proof that I am a legitimate registered user of the DVD/BD, I can copy it to any device I want, make as many back-ups as I want, and they have a way (the watermark) to show where a copy came from, if it is stolen or pirated. I keep my disk as hard copy back-up. Border search under ACTA? No problem. Dial in and check. Privacy invasion? No bigger than owning real property, you have to register that, in most jurisdictions. Plus it solves the problem of inheretance. Johnny get the Bogarts, Jenny get the Katherine Hepburns... But this requires respecting the customer. We're talking Hollywood..... |
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03-06-2012, 07:56 AM | #15 | |
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The studios know this is a moronic process, and know that anyone with any level of computer skill would save themselves the inconvenience and money by torrenting a copy of something they already own on disk.
They're not actually trying to compete with piracy, they want to be able to point to systems like this and say, "See? There are systems in place for people to get legitimate digital copies of what they own, but people aren't using them. We need even tougher laws on piracy!" They did this during the SOPA debate by pointing to the Ultraviolet system (which is equally awful). Quote:
I would have thought they would have managed to come up with something a little more elegant; this is the equivalent of Samsung trying to compete with the iPad by releasing a Lite Brite. Last edited by Ninjalawyer; 03-06-2012 at 08:07 AM. |
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