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drm sucks
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All DRM does is hurt honest people. Those not honest will usually find a way to break the DRM or find it out on the net already broken. What happens though is an honest person pays for something with DRM, the DRM gets in the way so this person goes to find it cracked on the net and find other stuff for free along the way and ends up downloading that too and not paying for it. So here is a case of DRM causing a loss in revenue where it would not have had the DRM not been there.
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It would be one thing if Sony had put out these new DRM laden DVDs and was able to put in a disclaimer that you would need to upgrade your firmware on your DVD player and to call support for help if need be or to check their website as long as ALL players had firmware upgrades. If I had purchased the DVD and then had to go back to the store to return it, I'd be asking for the cost of fuel and the cost of my time since this is not my fault.
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DRM = industries spending millions chasing that last couple of percent of profit from consumers and in the process shooting themselves in the foot by pissing off their consumers who eventually realise that they can get around that problem they had last year by downloading a pirated copy.
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Are you sure it's Fox who put the new DRM on these DVDs and not Sony?
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But, Sony released this DRM nonsense to Fox and probably told Fox it was ok to use.
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Sony define the standard; it's the player manufacturer who decides which aspects of the standard to implement in their device.
To blame Sony for this would be like blaming the creators of the older DVD standard for the decision of a movie study to release a "dual layer" DVD in the days before the majority of players supported them. Dual layer support was a part of the DVD standard long before players supported it. Similarly there are aspects of the Blu-Ray standard which current players don't currently implement. |
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Of course, these copy protected floppies COULD be copied, if you wanted to buy a Central Point (the people who now make Spyware Doctor) Option Board. Mine paid for itself within 1 month of purchase- lots of people wanted backup copies of the software that they had legally purchased. My point? EVERY DRM scheme can be hacked, and will be hacked. And most, especially the ones that make it difficult for paying consumers to enjoy the content that they bought, will quickly disappear. |
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