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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. In other news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    A new draconian practice known as 'video rental' forces customers to drive to a store, pay a fee for a DVD, and then return it later!
    We must stop this before all our freedoms are lost forever to the EVIL makers of movies!!

  2. rhiast phoast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    the isle of wight will rise up and destroy you.

    your mom had a "stroke," and by stroke, i mean of the cock.

  3. Re:Too bad... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  4. Re:DRM Failure by k4biR+5uxXoRs+KoX · · Score: -1, Troll

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