There's nothing more clueless than the studios... unless it's perhaps the
music companies or the book publishers. To the music industry's credit,
however, they seem to be finally beginning to get the start of a glimmer of
a clue.
All fail to realize that they've already lost control of the product, and
no amount of DRMing, DCMAing or other pointless attempts at control that
only pisses off their legitimate customers is ever gonna work for very long.
Note that this is *not* an endorsement of copyright infringement (which is
NOT "piracy" as they like to term it for the masses). These industries have
tried to assert increasing control and expand their "rights" at the expense
of their consumers (and in circumvention of the law, in many cases), and
consumers have rightly (in my opinion) rebelled.
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Paul Braun <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My biggest problem with Netflix is that they keep pushing for
> streaming-only subscriptions, then 70% of the time the movie we want to
> watch is only available via DVD. Or, it's there for streaming, we put it in
> the queue, and a week later the studio had revoked the streaming rights and
> we need to wait for the DVD anyway. The worst is an original movie that
> gets yanked as soon as the sequel is released to theatres. "Want to watch
> "How To Train Your Dragon" or Spider-Man before you go see the sequel?
> Sorry. The studio made us take it down so you have to wait 4 days for the
> physical disc."
>
> It's all clueless studio BS.
>
>
> Paul Braun
> Certified Music Junkie
>
> "It's such a fine line between stupid, and clever." -- David St. Hubbins
>
> "Music washes from the soul the dust of everyday life" - Berthold Auerbach
>
> > On Nov 29, 2014, at 11:24, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, whatever Comcast is, it doesn’t seem to be a great idea.
> >
> > But then neither is NetFlix. There aren’t enough decent films to make
> it worth my while to pay another subscription, yet the video-streamers are
> slowing my Internet connection something rotten . . .
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >> On 29 Nov 2014, at 17:01, Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Well I admit I prefer the John Oliver approach but I think it has good
> >> examples of why the local monopolies are not such a good deal for the
> >> average consumer.
> >>
> >>> On 29 November 2014 at 16:56, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Wrong on so many levels.
> >>>
> >>> AG
> >>>
> >>>> On Saturday, November 29, 2014, Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Good explanation:
> >>>> Net Neutrality in the US: Now What?
> >>>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAxMyTwmu_M>
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