Most videophiles I know are getting into “bigger and better” HDTV stuff. For the rest of us, I don’t know anyone that really wants to pay anything MORE than the regular RENTAL price for a DVD.

Minus the commercials, BS “extras” that serve no purpose other than to fill up a DD DVD, and voila. Clean, pure movie watching.

I predict prices will FALL and “up to the minute” release of movies will be in the 5-10$ range, like pay per view.

if he’s been checking p2p stats, he should know that people want it for free, on bittorrent, un-DRM’d, and good quality 700MB .avi files.

if he does that, then he’ll show he truly understands what people want.

The only way something would be downloaded into a user’s machine without his knowledge is through malware.

And if they do not give the sources for the user to examine then this program whose purpose is to hijack your computer will have full access to your data.

It is simply unfeasable to make someting invisible on a computer, and attemps to do so will lead to unacceptable security issues.

Sure you could install a hacked operating system who would only allow RIAA officials to really see all the data on your hard disk. But one boot disk and all the shananigans are made pointless.