I refused to install the microsoft drm (via netflix!) for precisely this reason over the weekend.
Read all my files on hard drive ? What do you think I am ? Someone who can't read ? WTF!
As a compromise I'm quite happy to get my DVDs by mail a day later.
For a change I'll log off the idiot box and exercising other dormant faculties of mine.... (Remember books anyone.)
yawnnn.. sure it's expensive...
Interestingly it points to google's strengths and weaknesses.
Their huge investments in R&D, infrastructure need to have an ROI. The scale of their ad business seems to match this.
However take away the ad-pony and bring in the paid software(hosted) pony and voila! Seems like Ma'ogle can't seem to match the likes of Amazon and others.. or perhaps they are being too conservative in their estimates of how many potential subscribers they can attract ?
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I refused to install the microsoft drm (via netflix!) for precisely this reason over the weekend. Read all my files on hard drive ? What do you think I am ? Someone who can't read ? WTF! As a compromise I'm quite happy to get my DVDs by mail a day later. For a change I'll log off the idiot box and exercising other dormant faculties of mine.... (Remember books anyone.)
yawnnn.. sure it's expensive... Interestingly it points to google's strengths and weaknesses. Their huge investments in R&D, infrastructure need to have an ROI. The scale of their ad business seems to match this. However take away the ad-pony and bring in the paid software(hosted) pony and voila! Seems like Ma'ogle can't seem to match the likes of Amazon and others.. or perhaps they are being too conservative in their estimates of how many potential subscribers they can attract ?