torrentfreak.com — Last week at the Digital Home Developers Conference Brad Hunt, the MPAA's executive vice president and chief technology officer said that piracy is the inevitable outcome of the music and movie industries' inability to provide a simple, inter-compatible and non-intrusive DRM solution.
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staticneuronOct 17, 2006
@baxtermaduxWhoa... calm the angry rant down. It is all a matter of opinion."But i think one reason so many s**tty moives get made, is because most of the market is stupid people that dont understand what a good movie is."Or mabe the majority of the market accepts what is given to them. If more decent movies came out as a norm peoples standards will rise. The point that was trying to be put accross (I assume) is the fact that movies have become standard far instead of the monumental events that they used to be. I only want to see a movie that makes me go "WOW!". I am pretty suree most people here would agree with me because the quality of TV series and miniseries have actually become really good and can easily trump any hho hum movie that's being shoved onto the market.
ddosattackOct 17, 2006
Sorry should have been more specific...The mirror link I posted the first three times wouldn't work when I tested them. Then the fourth time it worked. It was my fault.Hope that mirror worked for you... Damn filters at work lol
Closed AccountOct 17, 2006
I don't download original pirate material, i guess i am just blinded by the lights. Critics with their pot-shots taking all this DRM stuff to dizzy new heights. Maybe they are just looking for the hardest way to make and easy living? After all, a grand don't come for free.Let's push things forward.
verstohlenOct 17, 2006
Treat your customers like pirates, and they will act like pirates.
gerz1219Oct 17, 2006
@WiseWeasel - I agree with you in theory, but there's just no realistic way these content providers are going to let unprotected media be sold legally. Now there is a good argument to be made that anyone who wants to pirate media now is doing so anyway, but the way Big Media sees it, selling unprotected content is the same as giving it away. And yes, DRM has the effect of making pirated media more valuable rather than less, because pirated media comes with no restrictions. Still, I think the realistic goal in the short term is for consumers to pressure these companies into developing DRM that we can live with. And that means, once the market is mature, that one can download a movie at a fair price, play it on different computers around the house, and transfer it to a portable media player -- but with restrictions on backup and distribution. Even backing up files wouldn't be a necessity if stores like iTunes allowed users to re-download purchased media an unlimited number of times, as a safeguard against theft. I just think it's highly unrealistic to think that any amount of consumer pressure will cause these companies to do away with DRM completely.
delmonteOct 18, 2006
Oh no! The poor MPAA/RIAA is pissed off because their plans of using Microsoft's monopoly to impose a "universal" DRM format backfired...Poor RIAA, they can't replace uncompressed/unprotected audio CDs, with disks that only contain WMA DRMed music...That's so sad, they can't use the excuse that software DRM is cracked to force Microsoft to implement DRM at the hardware level...Oh... I'm almost gonna cry because the interoperability problems bring out the worse aspects of DRM out in the public view. If WMA+DRM played everywhere, people wouldn't have much tangible arguments against DRM, and the RIAA/MPAA could live happy, and impose whatever restriction they want since there wouldn't be any competition in the DRM area...
gamer135Oct 18, 2006
Actually the MPAA got it backwards, DRM Complications was the outcome to piracy