Can Hollywood Learn From Intuit?

Ironica writes "Readers will recall the furor over Intuit's activation scheme for TurboTax 2002, which prompted a lawsuit and subsequently was removed from TT2002 and all future products. Here's an interesting editorial on CNNMoney suggesting that other DRM proponents could take a page out of Intuit's book ... if they have the sense."

Comments

Re:Ther big difference between movies and software

[Romeozulu]

>>They pay artists a flat fee to make a movie

What?!? Have you ever heard of royalities? Actors get them, writers get them, directors get them, producers get them.

Re:I'm Quite Sure Holywood Is Learning

[Anonymous Coward]

Nice story, but its not true

http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/frogboil.htm

Re:DVD's without protection

[agrippa_cash]

That was without macrovision: http://slashdot.org/articles/02/06/13/1650225.shtm l?tid=172 They didn't want to pay the MV royalty. Tapes are a pain in the ass to copy and DVD's are encrypted. The bottom line involved was not one dictated by consumer satisfaction.

Maybe timothy & slash readers should read firs

[Anonymous Coward]

Think Intuit is giving up on drm?

Maybe timothy and the slashdot crowd should check their facts first, before crediting Intuit with anything.

Looks like Intuit's spin is working wonders.

Re:Boycott Intuit.

[bla]

>Your government doesn't have a free e-filing service?

we do. this year i got blanketed by junkmail from the IRS telling me to "use e-file!" i assume turbotax is just preying on the ignorant or fearful ("i can't trust myself or my own computer, so i should trust a corporation's since they're sure to be secure").

Re:Provide competition for the RIAA

[richieb]

Imagine a P2P sharing network that contains only legal content

Hmmmm.... you mean like etree.org