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A few days ago a printed book (gasp) arrived by mail. All the way from Japan. Okubo Nobuko is a well recognized authority on the kimono, it's fabrics, color combinations, styles of tying an obi, things like that. Included in the book was a DVD in which she does different variations and points out what you need to think about when you dress yourself (tying an obi is no easy venture). I put it in my laptop and started viewing. Well, about halfway through the DVD stops, the screen goes blank. Frustrated I reload, just to have the same experience. Well, no biggie, the drive is a few years old, I'll just copy it to the hard drive and watch from there, besides I want to make a video conversion so I can have it on my Android tablet, that way I can watch the pointers when I dress in a certain style. I start copying. Well as you all can imagine, that didn't work either.
I send an e-mail and ask them what's going on. Turns out you need an old fashioned DVD player hooked up to a TV to watch, I explain that it would be like to send a fax instead of an e-mail, it's obsolete, their answer is that they send thousands of faxes every day. The DVD was encoded with a DRM that won't let it pay on a DVD drive in a computer in order to avoid piracy. Needless to say I still haven't seen the second part of the DVD, and I will never again buy anything from that publisher. Not that it will make a dent in their bottom line.
ADE 3.0 sounds very similar.
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