The EZTakes Movie Downloads Store has been live for over a year and has over 2,000 downloadable/burnable DVDs online. They don't use DRM and all of their movies are licensed from the content owners.
EZTakes already offers a legal movie downloads that give people the ability to burn standard recordable DVDs that will play on standard DVD players that people already own.
Choice: Pay $20 to $30 for a movie that you can download and only watch with a PC (and perhaps move to another PC, if it works and the rules are not changed), or download the same movie for free and do whatever the heck you want with it (e.g. burn to DVD, move to any computer or device any number of times). For most sane people, that's not a choice. If you are honest, you won't do anything. The result is the same: what Movielink and CinemaNow are trying to do won't work because consumers won't do it. You can have the greatest DRM in the world, but it means nothing if one copy gets out in the clear. And one copy will always get out in the clear. DRM should be called PIT (piracy inducement technology).
The only sane way to download movies is a service called EZTakes (www.eztakes.com). They provide the only legal movie download service that gives you the ability to burn the downloads you buy to DVDs that will play on standard DVD players.
The service makes no sense. I've got to download a DRMed version of the movie, so that I can't copy it (or burn it to a DVD). Then they send me a DVD version, which anyone can decrypt and pirate.
Why don't they just let me download the movie and burn my own DVD?
Why don't they just use a service like EZTakes Movie Downloads? EZTakes lets you buy downloads that you can burn directly to DVDs that will play in standard DVD players.
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The EZTakes Movie Downloads Store has been live for over a year and has over 2,000 downloadable/burnable DVDs online. They don't use DRM and all of their movies are licensed from the content owners.
EZTakes already provides movie downloads that you can burn to standard DVDs. Prices start at $1.99 and average about $6.
EZTakes already offers a legal movie downloads that give people the ability to burn standard recordable DVDs that will play on standard DVD players that people already own.
The only sane way to download movies is a service called EZTakes (www.eztakes.com). They provide the only legal movie download service that gives you the ability to burn the downloads you buy to DVDs that will play on standard DVD players.
The service makes no sense. I've got to download a DRMed version of the movie, so that I can't copy it (or burn it to a DVD). Then they send me a DVD version, which anyone can decrypt and pirate. Why don't they just let me download the movie and burn my own DVD? Why don't they just use a service like EZTakes Movie Downloads? EZTakes lets you buy downloads that you can burn directly to DVDs that will play in standard DVD players.