I agree. While music DRM is starting to fade, video DRM isn't going away for a while. The dollar value associated with a pirated movies is huge. A 100 million dollar movie budget is not going risk having sales leak through piracy if they can help it.
Also, music has a much higher portability requirement than movies, and the Walkman made it mainstream back in the 80s. iPod/iTunes didn't help make music portable, it made portable digital music trusted, and that was because of DRM. Once the studios saw piracy was becoming more about convenience than price, they started to relax on DRM. If it was about price an everyday person wouldn't pay many box sets worth of dollar to buy the bandwidth to pirate video of less quality, and taking up a lot more effort. Not to mention it is in Spanish with German subtitles.
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Or the Rubik's cube art kicking around like Rubixel or the portraits the space invaders guy did.
I agree. While music DRM is starting to fade, video DRM isn't going away for a while. The dollar value associated with a pirated movies is huge. A 100 million dollar movie budget is not going risk having sales leak through piracy if they can help it.
Also, music has a much higher portability requirement than movies, and the Walkman made it mainstream back in the 80s. iPod/iTunes didn't help make music portable, it made portable digital music trusted, and that was because of DRM. Once the studios saw piracy was becoming more about convenience than price, they started to relax on DRM. If it was about price an everyday person wouldn't pay many box sets worth of dollar to buy the bandwidth to pirate video of less quality, and taking up a lot more effort. Not to mention it is in Spanish with German subtitles.