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| Authored by: betajet on Wednesday, June 13 2012 @ 02:34 PM EDT |
| Since the parent post involves nit-picking, I feel compelled to point out that
DVD is supposed to stand for "Digital Versatile Disk", since it can be
used for things other than video. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 13 2012 @ 04:25 PM EDT |
Perhaps they're really saying that you own the physical DVD *AND* really do own
the digital encoded video on it, as opposed to owning a *LICENCE* to access that
digitally encoded video (which they don't normally tell you until you've paid
your money, opened the packaging and put it in you DVD player whereupon they
STEAL from you (your electricity and time) showing you an unskippable ad
incorrectly informing you that copyright infringement is stealing).[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 14 2012 @ 05:59 AM EDT |
The motion picture cartel makes it quite clear that you do not own the 'movie'
but instead have licensed it from them. They view themselves as being nice by
providing what you have licensed on some convenient polycarbonate disc (for
playing within a DVD player) AND now provide something extra in the form of an
DRM managed encoding that you can watch on some other device (for some limited
time?). Remember it was this mob that went as far as to stop calling a 'movie' a
'movie' and started calling it 'software' rather early in the DVD release frame.
Video cassettes were always called 'movies' AFAIR.
Now, not only do you pay for the 'movie', but your paying for the privilege of
having DRM that encumbers this 'digital' copy. If DVD's were bad, BluRay is much
much worse. Fair use and the first sale doctrine has no relevance to this cartel
and just gets in their way of their preferred business of reselling you they
same over again.
As for the ability of the average man in the street, just remember primary
school and the difficulty many had with understanding what a lowest common
denominator was. That highlights it best. Nuf said. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 14 2012 @ 01:29 PM EDT |
Like the players that did both VHS and DVD or 8-track and cassette, this is a
transition phase. The goal is to get to the next phase which is digital (not
physical). Sometimes the market doesn't go the way they would like, I hope this
is one of those times.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Transitional - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 14 2012 @ 09:34 PM EDT
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