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The Movie Studios' Next Step in Online Movie Delivery

Posted by timothy on from the soon-you'll-rent-your-own-home-movies dept.

Con Zymaris writes "Here's another piece on the how the movie studios are trying to co-opt the movie delivery mechanisms of the 'counter-culture' set, but instill major restrictions such as IP-address range verification to ensure country of origin, and maximum 24-hour-play lifetime for each downloaded movie."

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  1. It's called "updating the business model" by 0x0d0a · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Con Zymaris, why are you complaining? People on Slashdot have been complaining for ages about media companies having an "out of date" business model. Now they bring it up to date with an efficient, fast, online delivery mechanism...and you don't like it.

    Could it be that people claiming things like "business models" just want to rip people off? They aren't interested in "business models" at all...they're just old-fashioned shoplifter types?

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