Comments on: HBO: stamping out piracy

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 08:05:08 +0000

HBO, stamping out quality!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 08:02:55 +0000

Make good shows. That’s their job. Worry about piracy & they’ll go broke, plus that money should be going into MAKING the shows.

When the Net gets fast enough & hard drives large enough, no one’ll watch TV anyway. Your friend could stream you a movie.

Eventually, HBO = Half-Baked & Obsolete.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 22:28:19 +0000

Just vote with your money!
Just dump HBO!
Screw pay for play !

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 08:11:20 +0000

Instead of worrying about dealing with piracy, maybe they ought to be worrying about keeping customers.

The continual policy of running reruns over and over and then swapping them with Showtime doesn’t do anything for making it worth paying for the month. It doesn’t just end with this. When you look at this digital satellite ppv, it advertises you being able to have what; 300 channels? What good does it do to have 300 channels that over 85% show reruns (in some cases back to back such as TBN) are shown several times a day. Add up 10 shows and you got three days worth of entertainment according to what they are figuring. To me that is neither entertainment nor is it programming that is worth the money. If you have two PPV’s then you have most likely seen all the shows the first week or so for all the month. So basically you’re paying for three weeks of filler. (Sort of sounds like music cd’s don’t it?)

I quit paying for or watching PPV a few years ago for this very reason. Maybe they were offering them where you could get a copy but honestly it wasn’t worth it. So now they do without my money as they are not in my opinion offering a service worth the money. In fact there is no input to my tv any longer. No cable, no satellite dish, no antenna. They’ll have to figure out how to make movies again before they get me back as a customer. Reruns and remake in continual succession isn’t going to cut it. Locking those down won’t do it either.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 04:46:58 +0000

they’re to busy counting the imaginary money they think they are going to get for the DRM product. Instead of selling the none drm product for reduced prices to larger numbers of customers.
For some strange reason they think if $100 Milliion people will dl a show off the internet for free, that it means that $100 Million people will pay the ridiculously high price they want to charge…. when in reality they should lower the price and they’ll probably get 20 -50% of that number….but not at the pricces they keep wanting

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 04:38:42 +0000

I keep on reading more or less the same arguments on how to avoid piracy, hoq can they possibly stop someone who goes at a friends with a digital camcorder of any sort and copies the damn protected file?
Plz let me know how it can be done…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 23:45:40 +0000

When will greedy corporations like HBO, the music industry and others, realize that restricting content is not the way to go. So what if Deadwood or rome appear on the internet? Some people such as myself, would be more than willing to pay for downloads of TV shows and movies, as well as music. However the way these greedy monsters operate now, I have two choices. I can pay for content that’s very restrictive, and doesn’t allow me to choose how or where I can play it, or for free, I can get the same content, free of restrictions, allowing me to choose where and on what devices I can play the content, the way it should be! If these greedy companies offered a service that allowed users to pay for content, as they can now, but without the restrictions they insist on forcing on their customers now, I believe a service like that would be well accepted by consumers, and I personally believe a service that offered download speeds as fast as your net connection could go, could be as popular as usenet is now.
What do you think makes usenet such a popular way to download content? That’s right users can get content as fast as their internet connection can push it to them. So a nonrestrictive download service by MPAA or the like, would be just as popular I’d think.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 22:04:55 +0000

THAT would be the PERFECT solution to prettty much all our DRM and “media corporation” problems IF PEOPLE WOULD ACTUALLY DO IT!

But, they won’t… The vast majority don’t even have a clue about what’s going on in the digital media world, and they won’t until it’s locked down and the key thrown away.

PAY TO PLAY.
EVERY TIME.
EVERY FORMAT.

“They” will not rest until that’s the way it is.
(No rest for the wicked…)

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:09:08 +0000

Didn’t we go through this once already with the VCR? I think if HBO wants its stuff to be offlimits to DVRs, we should make our money off limits to HBO.