Re:Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM
by res0nat0r on Friday October 04, 2013 @05:12AM
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>Only if you assume that controlling the paying users is not the real purpose. It's much easier to get suckers to pay three or four times for the same content if you lock'em up with platform-specific DRM.
When has charging $15-25 for a DVD/BluRay become a suckers bet? Sure most of us here like all digital platforms, but many don't, and happily shell out that amount of money. Also because it is easy to pirate a digital copy of a BluRay (if you are technically inclined), doesn't mean that somehow all digital copies of BluRay releases should somehow approach $0.
Re:Mozilla bug 923590: Pledge never to implement HTML5 DRM
by icebraining on Friday October 04, 2013 @06:41AM
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You seem to be replying to a post I didn't write. I never said any of that.
That's almost double the unique hits on Reddit, and those are just two P2P applications; there are plenty more that are extremely popular among other populations.
otherwise I'll venture to guess that BigBadCo would have found via their research it was a losing proposition
Only if you assume that controlling the paying users is not the real purpose. It's much easier to get suckers to pay three or four times for the same content if you lock'em up with platform-specific DRM.
[1] http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-surges-to-150-million-mon...