Hey this just be my simple minded approach to things but instead of spending Millions if not Billions of dollars coming up with protection schemes and filing suit against those that break them. Would it not just be cheaper, make more sense and be far more effective to make the movies such a good deal that you don't want to put the effort into stealing them?
Sell the movies for $10, there would be no extra cost for distributing a digital movie other than bandwidth. No editing (to fit your TV), production (movies onto tape and DVD), shipping, or shelving fees, all you'd have is the bandwidth cost. Would I download a movie for free when I can have a legitimate copy for $10? Hardly, leave all the special features etc for the DVD just give me the movie, cheap, and I'll buy.
But hey, again thats just my perhaps overly simplistic way of thinking.
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Hey this just be my simple minded approach to things but instead of spending Millions if not Billions of dollars coming up with protection schemes and filing suit against those that break them. Would it not just be cheaper, make more sense and be far more effective to make the movies such a good deal that you don't want to put the effort into stealing them? Sell the movies for $10, there would be no extra cost for distributing a digital movie other than bandwidth. No editing (to fit your TV), production (movies onto tape and DVD), shipping, or shelving fees, all you'd have is the bandwidth cost. Would I download a movie for free when I can have a legitimate copy for $10? Hardly, leave all the special features etc for the DVD just give me the movie, cheap, and I'll buy. But hey, again thats just my perhaps overly simplistic way of thinking.