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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. Too bad... by rob-fu · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here is how it works. According to this page, it's Windows only. Too bad.

    1. Re:Too bad... by brad-x · · Score: 5, Informative

      Hmm, maybe MPlayer will support the format? Even if it is a new digitally signed media format, players like it are very good at using the Windows based codecs.

      Not time to panic just yet, there are still a few compatibility options.

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  2. Some Simple Math... by manly_15 · · Score: 5, Informative

    I live in Canada, and my ADSL ISP limits my monthly transfer to 5 gigs a month. After that, I pay 10$ a gig. So...

    5 gigs = ~7 movies @ 700 MB each = 40$ (monthly rate for adsl)
    + 4 US$ * 7 movies * 1.5 exchange rate = 42$
    = 82$ total (plus tax)

    82$ for 7 movies? That I can only watch for 24 hours each? When I can buy NEW DVD'S for ~20$ each! It seems that the movie companies are shooting themselves in the foot multiple times with a plan like this...