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Any idea how much money is made on a DVD not being rippable for the first week of release? The movie industry thinks it does and that's why it spends on copy pr

• jrockway 17y ago
  I think they are forgetting about people like me that don't want to buy a $300 player every time they invent some new format. My computer plays 1080p video files just fine. My TV displays 1080p video just fine. I have virtually unlimited download bandwidth. And yet, I can't watch HD movies. To do that, I would have to spend several hundred dollars on a special player for special disks, and I have to replace my HDTV with one that has HDCP, and I have to get a special HDMI cable to connect the player to the TV. No thanks. I don't want your movie that badly. If there was no copy protection and they were interested in making money, they could sell me access to that movie file. I would download it, and then my computer could play the movie on my TV, and everything would be fine. They get money, I get movie. No piracy happens. But instead, since I can't pay for a movie even if I wanted to, piracy is the only option. (The movie thinks there is some moral dilemma that would prevent me from pirating something. But in my generation, there's not. I saw a book I wrote available on a torrent site a while ago. I didn't even get upset, I thought, "wow, that's awesome, people are pirating my book". I still made plenty of money. Just like I think the movie industry would make plenty of money if they got rid of DRM.)