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DVD regions limit where you can watch something. Performance rights limit to who you can show it. Copyright limits how you can distribute it. These kinds of thi
by senko 6y ago
DVD regions limit where you can watch something. Performance rights limit to who you can show it. Copyright limits how you can distribute it. These kinds of things were happening before and are something we're accustomed to, but I agree DRM and the possibility to rescind access makes it much worse.
That's why I'm a happy streaming subscriber. No lies there.
- Brian_K_White 6y agoThis is nothing at all like DVD region coding except in the intent of the perpetrators. Region coding does not prevent me from buying and playing a disc from any region, in any region. It's just a technical hurdle which works well enough for the publishers business model, in that the inconvenience has the desired effect on 99.9% of consumers. But once I own the disc, I own the disc. Same for the player. It's entirely and fundamentally different from anything delivered only as a service or worse as services masquerading as products, like software and devices that don't actually function without a service to allow it. And the encryption is so pointless I forgot it even existed until just now.