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'Roll Your Own News' DVDs Now Shipping
theodp writes "Amazon.com and CBS have partnered to offer a la carte news clips on custom-made DVDs. Pay $24.95 and you'll get 10 clips or 90 minutes, whichever comes first. Not too surprisingly, CBS News seems to have the best coverage on the new service."
I could see this as being useful in an educational setting, as a good way to show recent events to middle/high school kids who otherwise could care less and are probably more concerned about who just sent them a friend invite on MySpace. After all, who do you think spends $24.95 to buy the same program you just saw on the History Channel? Outside of this though, I have no idea who could possibly have any use for this, even after reading TFA.
That wasn't a typo, I describe any license where the customer has to jump through hoops to actually use the stuff they bought as anal. Feel free to suggest a better word.
Philosophy.
Not only did they drop it, but CNN/FOX/MSNBC offer premium content on their webpage for free.
What makes it "premium?" Since it is free, you aren't paying extra for it. Since it is free, it is not above the normal offerings. Have you been drinking the marketing kool-aid again?
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
And now you understand why the content producers are so keen on the broadcast flag. Then it becomes $30 for something you can't tape.
Libraries and schools, mostly. Those kinds of institutions can't tape an entire show off the air and then archive it for others to use.
The news here is that an "old media" company and former MPAA member (CBS) is offering to allow the general public to select multiple short copyrighted works, write them to a recordable medium, and ship the disc to the customer's home.