Comments on: SunnComm’s latest http://www.p2pnet.net/story/1793 p2pnet.net - reader powered Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:36:32 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/1793/comment-page-1#comment-2969 Reader's Write Wed, 30 Jun 2004 20:58:46 +0000 #comment-2969 Right on but people read *Do Not Open* as *DO Open* ;-) Right on but people read *Do Not Open* as *DO Open* ;-)

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/1793/comment-page-1#comment-2968 Reader's Write Wed, 30 Jun 2004 18:03:07 +0000 #comment-2968 It seems to me that the CSS protection already on DVDs "inhibits" casual copying. I can't just stick a DVD in a drive, and drag the filestructure into a recording program. It seems to me that SunmComm is lauging all the way to the bank. SunnComm is selling the equivalent of a sign that says "Do Not Open," and then telling the sign purchaser that it inhibits all entry into the high-security area it "protects." As for the "extra features never before found on a DVD, blah, blah" what are those going to be? Buy a DVD, you get the movie, sometimes some commentary and trailers. What else is there? Coupons good for free beer? DVDs are a decent (not great) buy right now. That's why they are so popular. My thoughts are if you start beating your customers over the head with a hammer in the name of security, you're going to lose a lot of them. I know I don't buy CDs anymore. I don't download them either, the music industries' product is not something I want anything to do with anymore. DVDs will soon be the same way. It seems to me that the CSS protection already on DVDs “inhibits” casual copying. I can’t just stick a DVD in a drive, and drag the filestructure into a recording program.

It seems to me that SunmComm is lauging all the way to the bank. SunnComm is selling the equivalent of a sign that says “Do Not Open,” and then telling the sign purchaser that it inhibits all entry into the high-security area it “protects.”

As for the “extra features never before found on a DVD, blah, blah” what are those going to be? Buy a DVD, you get the movie, sometimes some commentary and trailers. What else is there? Coupons good for free beer?

DVDs are a decent (not great) buy right now. That’s why they are so popular. My thoughts are if you start beating your customers over the head with a hammer in the name of security, you’re going to lose a lot of them. I know I don’t buy CDs anymore. I don’t download them either, the music industries’ product is not something I want anything to do with anymore. DVDs will soon be the same way.

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