p2pnet - rss feed: More Apple CRAP — home movies
p2pnet news | Product News:- “As even Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs admits, the ‘digital living room’ has been a tough nut to crack.”
What that means is he hasn’t yet been able to figure out how to talk people into buying expensive Apple gear so people can do what they already do, but at a much higher price.
Watch movies and TV shows at home.
And the mainstream media are all a-twitter. Again.
According to the the Mercury News, “We think it’s a revolution,” DRM King Jobs says. “We think we’ve got it all together.”
And, “There is no computer involved here,” the Los Angeles Times quotes him as saying.
“They are doing it on their couch on their wide-screen TV.”
Doing it on their couch, eh?
But when you get right down to it, it’s the usual Apple CRAP —- over-hyped, over-priced product, this time applied to movies.
You’ll have to pay $3 for “older’ flicks, $4 for newer ones and $5 for high-definition versions.
Then comes the kicker:
Once you’ve started watching a movie, you have 24 hours to finish it or it self-destructs. And it does the same if you don’t watch it within 30 days.
There is, of course, also the thin MacBook Hot Air, complete with pre-installed software.
DRM by another name.
And Jobs says he’s got it all together?
But it’s just more Apple C.R.A.P. —- Content Restriction, Annulment, and Protection (David Berlind, ZDNet) or, Cancellation, Restriction, and Punishment (Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation).
Also See:-
Mercury News - Apple looks to bring the theater home, January 16, 2008
Los Angeles Times - Studios join Apple’s movie-rental service, January 16, 2008
Apple CRAP - Apple and its C.R.A.P.March 4, 2006
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January 16th, 2008 at 7:27 am
I’m all against DRM, but still when I rent a movie at the videoclub, I have to bring it back within 24 hours, and if I didn’t had time to watch it by then well too bad for me I still need to return it…
DRM really sucks, but this is rental, get over it.
January 16th, 2008 at 8:27 am
> DRM really sucks, but this is rental, get over it.
There is NO REASON in this 21st century to apply limits of 24 hours typical of PHYSICAL products to FILES that are COPIES made without human involvement, FILES that have ZERO marginal cost to produce and are NOT SCARCITY at all!
If THEY figured out how to get MORE PROFIT while having a ZERO marginal cost (they pay for electricity but so do us), it is perfectly reasonable for their CUSTOMERS to get a share of the decrease of the cost.
I could understand if it were discs available for rentals, but why apply that to ephemeral files?
January 16th, 2008 at 9:48 am
“If THEY figured out how to get MORE PROFIT while having a ZERO marginal cost (they pay for electricity but so do us), it is perfectly reasonable for their CUSTOMERS to get a share of the decrease of the cost.”
I agree, I’d like to add that it’d be so cheap why bother renting? just pay $1-$4 to download and keep the movie without DRM. That’s $8 more than most movies are worth (that’s not a typo, some movies really are that bad).
With Bittorent they don’t pay for huge bandwidth costs associated with movie downloads.
They won’t do this because they can’t sell the same movie over and over again.
January 16th, 2008 at 11:01 am
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080115-crippled-network-dvrs-alive-could-be-so-much-more.html
Even more C.R.A.P., not from Apple though.
January 16th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
On-Demand video and VUDU delete movies after 24 hours, too. That is not an Apple thing. That is how it works.
If you want to keep the movie, just buy the damn thing. Why would anybody give you a movie for $3.99?
The prices are perfectly reasonable, by the way. Been to Blockbuster lately?
January 16th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
If you want to keep the movie, just buy the damn thing. Why would anybody give you a movie for $3.99?
No physical disc manufacturing
No box for physical disc because no physical disc
No physical disc transport on trucks
No warehouse costs because no physical discs (no warehouse employee salaries)
No store costs because no physical discs
No store profits because no physical discs and no physical store
Bittorent usues the upload bandwidth of its users so the movie companies don’t need big bandwidth and big servers to serve a million users’ movies. They only need to tell users where to find each other, so no big costs there.
There’s no scarcity with Bittorent, the more people that want a file, the faster and more available it becomes.
Sorry, there’s no excuse for a movie costing a lot of money. They’re just being greedy and if you haven’t noticed it’s at your expense if you play it their way. A fool and their money are soon parted. DON’T BE A FOOL!
January 16th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
“On-Demand video and VUDU delete movies after 24 hours, too. That is not an Apple thing. That is how it works.”
You mean that is how it works for people who like getting ripped off or who do not know better. The prices for digital content needs to come down or else they will not be able to compete with “piracy.”
If you want to keep the movie, just buy the damn thing. Why would anybody give you a movie for $3.99?
Most movies are simply not worth $3.99. The reason why the studios should consider selling the movie for $3.99 is because the same movie can be downloaded for no cost. It is better for the cartels to sell a movie for $3.99 than for them to make nothing at all. It’s called competition, and the competition is offering a much better price. Businesses cut off their employees daily to overseas slave simply because using slaves gives them cheaper rates. The businesses that engage in this practice call it “free market.” They call it stealing when the same principle is applied to movies and audio recordings. The cartels want it both ways. I call filesharing the customers’ version of outsourcing. It may even become perfectly legal if the files are hosted in Antigua. Since the cartels have been so eager to sell U.S. sovereignty down the toilet, they should have to suffer the same blowback that the average American citizen has to suffer.
The prices are perfectly reasonable, by the way. Been to Blockbuster lately?
Yes I have, and their prices are also way too high. Blockbuster at least has the excuse that once a tangible product (DVD) leaves the store, they are no longer in possession of it. With digital products, the product never has to leave the possession of the seller, and the buyer still gets to use the product. With that said, I have to admit, that there is not much cartel product out there that I find pleasing enough to watch for free, so I sure won’t waste my time, bandwidth, or even money to obtain it.