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This gets brought up every time anyone talks about any media streaming services, but has it ever been shown that consumers care?
by evan_ 14y ago
This gets brought up every time anyone talks about any media streaming services, but has it ever been shown that consumers care?
- bherms 14y agoThe real problem lies in the fact that most consumers don't realize that it's an issue. It only hits them when it actually happens. Those of us in the tech community are more forward thinking when it comes to this sort of stuff. Would you care if you paid $15 for a movie, then a few months later the service shut down and you couldn't watch it anymore? I bet you would. Would your mom/dad/grandparents/etc care? Most likely.
- lukifer 14y agoThey don't care pre-emptively, but it only takes getting burned once after sinking hundreds or thousands into a dead platform that they start to get skeptical.
- dublinben 14y agoI'm sure any customers of Walmart Music are reluctant to fall for this again. http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2008/09/wal-mart-latest-to-shut-down-drm-key-servers/ http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2008/09/wal-mart-latest...
- lukifer 14y agoSad to say, but I think it's a simple matter of enough people getting burned for the scales to tip on non-DRM content.