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What’s the alternative?
by empath75 8y ago
What’s the alternative?
- hdctambien 8y agoSpinning disks, I suppose
- drngdds 8y agoDVD and Blu-ray both have DRM, though. I guess there's always VHS.
- dingo_bat 8y agoDRM is not undefeatable.
- pdpi 8y agoThe problem isn’t defeatability. It’s the principle of buying DRM-locked content. It’s a compromise I’m willing to make under certain circumstances, but ultimately one that bothers me.
- jasonkostempski 8y agoDVD DRM can be broken easily.
- izacus 8y agoBluRay DRM is the worst thing ever - it demands that you are FULLY locked out of your own computer (this is why 4K HDR BR players are practically non-existent for PCs, since you need a fully locked out DRM stack from the drive to the display), it and demands internet connectivity to download keys. The number of devices that actually conform to draconian BluRay 4K spec is order of magnitude lower than devices that can play Netflix content.
- contravariant 8y agoDepends how utilitarian your morals are.
- bronco21016 8y agoThat’s kind of the saddest part really. We’ve allowed the convenience of streaming, packaged with these pesky copyright and privacy issues, to destroy any other legal repositories of digital media. Luckily as streaming has matured some of the more tech savvy artists are starting to do their own distribution. My biggest fear is in what will be lost in the future. These companies haven’t been around long enough for consumers to know how they will retain media. Will they only keep up licenses on the most popular movies? How will you then ever get a legal copy or access to one of your favorite movies of 30 years ago that nobody else liked?
- thirdsun 8y ago> That’s kind of the saddest part really. We’ve allowed the convenience of streaming, packaged with these pesky copyright and privacy issues, to destroy any other legal repositories of digital media. To be fair that only applies to video. With music there's a wide range of digital, DRM-free, lossless purchasing options available. However I worry that this will become a much smaller niche considering the popularity of streaming.
- dustinmoorenet 8y agoWe are not afforded a free'er alternative that is legal so I believe he probably doesn't watch much TV. DRM IS everywhere. There is no copying of modern media that isn't illegal. We lost that war.
- jasonkostempski 8y agoAny DRM free, EULA free source. Probably won't get that from the publishers and its probably illegal in most cases. If you have a problem with that, obviously don't use it, but there are limited legitimate offerings from publishers out there. The only semi-mainstream one I've seen is on the Louis C.K. site. I was hoping he was going to inspire a publishing trend, but I dont think he'll be putting out any more content.
- EpicEng 8y ago>Any DRM free, EULA free source. Probably won't get that from the publishers and its probably illegal in most cases So no real legal alternatives then considering the paltry number of options you'll have.
- bunderbunder 8y agoPrint books and VHS, I imagine. Anything post-DVD would be problematic due to CSS and suchlike. Maybe whatever videos you can legally get in Ogg format.
- realusername 8y agoI'd like video files personally, but publishers are probably not going to agree with me.
- tw1010 8y agoIf your openness threshold is as high as RMS's, the fact that there's no alternative is an ok tradeoff.
- kome 8y agoTorrent.