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Disney Close To Unveiling New "DVD Killer"
Uncle Rummy writes "The Wall Street Journal reports that Disney is close to releasing a new system that will sell permanent, multi-device access to digital media. The system, dubbed Keychest, is being positioned as an answer to consumer concerns about purchasing digital media that are locked to a small number of devices, and thus as a way to finally shift media sales from an ownership model to an access model. They claim that such a service would reduce the risk of losing access to content as a result of a single vendor going out of business, as purchased content would remain available from other vendors. However, they do not seem to have addressed the question of what happens to customers' access to purchased content if the Keychest service itself is discontinued."
You crack me up. You really do if you think Disney is proposing this for the "consumer's" benefit. Perhaps you merely forgot to include the "sarcasm" tags?
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Extra, extra, read all about it. Disney sells fluffy fairytale DRM that likes to cuddle and sing.
It's not news. It's hype. Disney has always sold fairytales. Disney has always aggressively used DRM. It's the same broken set of ideas that is DRM, packaged yet again for a gullible public. I pay about as much attention to these "announcements" as I do to Nigerian get rich quick spam. No thanks Disney, I don't want to send you my financial details or buy that fairytale bridge that'll make me rich.
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You laugh, but Disney came very close to being bought out in a hostile takover and dismantled for its properties in the early eighties.
Reagan jawboned a huge cut in the capital gains tax, which meant that for many business owners it was more lucrative to sell the business than to continue operating it. Many a small business closed its doors. Plus, there was an epidemic of hostille takovers of companies because of the huge cut in this tax, and this is what finally happened with Disney. The hostile takover failed, but had it succeeded, there would be no Disney as we know it today.
I worked for them at the time, and the attempted takeover cost me 1/8th of my wages. As always, the workers get shafted and the rich bitch walks away without a scratch.
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I'm pretty sure you have a damned good point there, but I was so distracted by the use of the made up word "unrelentlessly," used in such as way to be mean the exact opposite of what it would actually mean if it were a real word, that I must have missed it.
I make typing errors at times. I used to be a lot more strongly autistic, and so was neurologically capable of a much higher degree of precision/pedantry with such things than I am now. I smoked marijuana for two years at one point, however.
That had the effect of making me less visibly autistic, even after I stopped smoking, but unfortunately it also lowered my tendency towards pedantry, and also lowered my IQ by around 10 points (consistently; I've tested myself repeatedly) as well.
I don't have the capacity for learning languages that I did as a child now, either. I was learning Japanese at one point, and the teacher said I was the best student she'd ever had. Weed gives with one hand, but it takes away with the other.