Idiot. They don't care about control. All they care about is making money. If they could they would say that only you allowed to watch a movie, and if your friends did not buy the movie, they are not allowed to watch it, unless they have purchased a copy. The can have sort of people detection mechanism in DVDs and not play the.... etc.etc...
I'm sure you're one of the few here then that doesnt see the connection.
If (control == MORE_MONEY) { control++; allmine += GetConsumersLastCoin(); }
When they have the control to make you buy a movie, and the disc goes bad after a week... do you think they'll suddenly change their minds and go "oh no we'll go and publish it all online so they can all just download it and view it at any time!"
No... if they win this, it'll go on and on. Of course, plain DVDs will exist... Megaslaughter by LittleWannaBeProducers. Inc hasn't got any encryption. Who cares that it could as well had been on an audio tape cause the cameraman forgot to take the lense protection off?
As long as the general public wants the movies only they have, they can gain control. And they want control, because it brings them more money. Let's face it... there is no possibility whatsoever of someone coming along and starting a new big movie studio. If the MPAA wins this, we'll either have to accept their DVDs, or buy shit movies (maybe this doesnt bother those who only watch xxx but it bothers me..), in order to stay on the right side of the law.
Well okay... what coder didn't know already that coding abilities increase dramaticly after 1 am?
It's like all those things you'll hear on the radio about scientists putting ten million into a project to come out with the fact that "rats that get infected with cancer die sooner than rats that we dont infect"...
In the long term, I'd much rather own a disk rathern than rely on digital streams to get content from distributors to me. For one, you can pay one time to watch a DVD as many times as you like. I don't know if that will be an option with streaming video in the future. And even if it is, one hard drive crash will cause a lot of difficulties, as you try to resurrect movie's you'd downloaded, or recreate certificates that state you own the right to watch such and such whenever you'd like.
Don't be too sure of that... I've seen news about there being a time limited version of DVDs on the way. The laser activates the material on the disc that starts going away, or something like that... until the disc is unusable.
Regardless of whether or not you actually buy the disc or not, what the MPAA and its pals want is for you to not be able to view/listen to/use the material you bought, regardless of whether or not you bought it on a disc or on the net.
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They don't care about control. All they care about is making money. If they could they would say that only you allowed to watch a movie, and if your friends did not buy the movie, they are not allowed to watch it, unless they have purchased a copy. The can have sort of people detection mechanism in DVDs and not play the.... etc.etc...
I'm sure you're one of the few here then that doesnt see the connection.
If (control == MORE_MONEY) {
control++;
allmine += GetConsumersLastCoin();
}
When they have the control to make you buy a movie, and the disc goes bad after a week... do you think they'll suddenly change their minds and go "oh no we'll go and publish it all online so they can all just download it and view it at any time!"
No... if they win this, it'll go on and on. Of course, plain DVDs will exist... Megaslaughter by LittleWannaBeProducers. Inc hasn't got any encryption. Who cares that it could as well had been on an audio tape cause the cameraman forgot to take the lense protection off?
As long as the general public wants the movies only they have, they can gain control. And they want control, because it brings them more money. Let's face it... there is no possibility whatsoever of someone coming along and starting a new big movie studio. If the MPAA wins this, we'll either have to accept their DVDs, or buy shit movies (maybe this doesnt bother those who only watch xxx but it bothers me..), in order to stay on the right side of the law.
It's like all those things you'll hear on the radio about scientists putting ten million into a project to come out with the fact that "rats that get infected with cancer die sooner than rats that we dont infect"...
Don't be too sure of that... I've seen news about there being a time limited version of DVDs on the way. The laser activates the material on the disc that starts going away, or something like that... until the disc is unusable.
Regardless of whether or not you actually buy the disc or not, what the MPAA and its pals want is for you to not be able to view/listen to/use the material you bought, regardless of whether or not you bought it on a disc or on the net.
That is what makes all of this so important.