Re:Why Rosyna Can't Take a Movie Screenshot
by DanBC on Sunday January 04, 2015 @08:45AM
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DRM is tied to formats, not to movie releases. Your timin argument is odd when you consider that they still release movies on DVD with a thoroughly broken DRM system.
> The same economics holds for other things like video games. Nobody cares if you beat the DRM on a game that's five years old.
Yes, they do. Japanese game companies wanted to make it illegal to sell games to the second user market; MAME rom sites are routinely shut down.
Disney initially resisted releasing films on VHS because they would not be able to extract a charge from everyone in the room watching the movie. Disney uas investigated a bunch of different rights protection mechanisms. They invented video cassettes that had a ratchet meaning they could only be watched once and needed to be sent back to a factory to be rewound. They invented a DVD that oxidized in contact with air. It would be sent to you in special packaging. You had about 48 hours after opening the package before the disc degrades.
Early music players had weird schemes - one digital copy; weird software needed to load music to the device.
All of these are about controlling how the consumer uses the product. The intent might be to make casual piracy harder, but the effect is to make life really freaking hard for honest people.
> The same economics holds for other things like video games. Nobody cares if you beat the DRM on a game that's five years old.
Yes, they do. Japanese game companies wanted to make it illegal to sell games to the second user market; MAME rom sites are routinely shut down.
Disney initially resisted releasing films on VHS because they would not be able to extract a charge from everyone in the room watching the movie. Disney uas investigated a bunch of different rights protection mechanisms. They invented video cassettes that had a ratchet meaning they could only be watched once and needed to be sent back to a factory to be rewound. They invented a DVD that oxidized in contact with air. It would be sent to you in special packaging. You had about 48 hours after opening the package before the disc degrades.
Early music players had weird schemes - one digital copy; weird software needed to load music to the device.
All of these are about controlling how the consumer uses the product. The intent might be to make casual piracy harder, but the effect is to make life really freaking hard for honest people.