Movie Burning Kiosks Coming To Retailers

Vitaly Friedman writes "The motion picture industry is in talks with some major retailers about installing DVD burning kiosks in stores. It's an interesting idea, but one that almost entirely misses the point. Hollywood's movie distribution system is in dire need of a fix - very few will dispute that. Movie attendance has been suffering, DVD sales are slumping, and all the industry has managed to do is come up with a half-baked, unpopular download service and a scant handful of simultaneous releases. In another attempt to sort of give consumers what they want, the motion picture industry is thinking about allowing retailers to set up in-store kiosks for distribution."

Comments

Uhh.

[Anonymous Coward]

right...because the burning of the DVD in itself is what makes consumers download movies from the internet!?!

Seeing that that's what it's about we can now go to a store and have them burn a DVD for us? WTF?

Speaking from my own experience, this is what happens when you let McKinsey-esque people tell you what to do.

this will mean lots of trouble

[AlgorithMan]

lets say I buy/rent such a burned dvd... and I don't keep the bill...
now lets say the police raids my house - how the hell am I supposed to prove that this burned dvd is legal?

I'll have to pay hundreds of euros fine and maybe go to prison, because I legally bought/rented dvds... NO THANK YOU!