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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
Sorry. I was more talking about digital only movies, iPlayer, netflix, LoveFilm, Ultraviolet, Google, Sky etc
All of which are DRM'd (and I think can all be downloaded for offline viewing, generally only limited to a fixed device or app).
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The movie industry is in the process of TRYING to do something that the ebook industry might try to do shortly, if they don't go the way of the music industry and give up on DRM.
The movie industry is TRYING to make the content available easy, in whatever format and on whatever device the user cares to use.
Systems like Ultraviolet, and the inclusion of digital copies when you buy a disc, are steps toward giving users the access to the content that they want, which is the main complaint most of us have about ebook DRM, aside from concerns about obsolescence and losing access. We want to be able to use the content in the many we choose, on the devices we choose.
The movie industry has not totally succeeded. The digital movie systems can be cumbersome and inconvenient. It is often both faster and easier to download a pirated movie than to get the official system to work.
They do have two additional factors in their favor that gives their DRM an advantage over ebooks.
1. It take measurably more time, effort and knowledge to strip the DRM from a movie than it does from an ebook.
2. A pirated copy of a movie is quite often inferior in quality to a genuine copy.
Both those factors add value to using the "official" mechanisms for movies over the "unofficial" ways.
ApK