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Not at all true — done consulting work for some major media companies, and they vastly preferred people to buy (just think: ~$20 vs. $3.99). I think DRM is just
by milesskorpen 14y ago
Not at all true — done consulting work for some major media companies, and they vastly preferred people to buy (just think: ~$20 vs. $3.99). I think DRM is just programmed into how the industry views the world, unfortunately.
- roc 14y agoIf that were true then why is every DRM play not designed around cutting down piracy, but on limiting the rights of legal purchasers? Why hasn't there ever been key-transfer features to facilitate sales/trades/loans? Why are there always platform locks and media locks and account locks? Why is there so much effort to stop legal backups, loaning, libraries, etc? I don't doubt individual good people or divisions exist in major media companies that would just as well sell a movie for $20 and be done with it. But the repeated DRM strategy does not jive with that at all.
- ihsw 14y agoBecause the media companies are headed by lawyers and politicians, if people were happily purchasing content for reasonable prices then they couldn't make a whole lot of noise and lobby for awful privacy-invading and rights-withholding legislation -- that is their ultimate goal.
- wmf 14y agoTo be fair, they are working (slowly) on UltraViolet.
- jeffool 14y agoWhile I have no special insight, I genuinely think you're attributing to malice what can more easily be attributed to stupidity. And even really smart people can be very, very stupid.
- ianferrel 14y agoWhat they'd really like to do is rent it to you, but for the price of buying it, and have you think you're buying it. Hence, the DRM.
- chimeracoder 14y agoBingo. If it comes with DRM, it's a rental, not a purchase, no matter how much you paid for it.