Comments on: Major studios discover the Net

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 08:30:46 +0000

In the local supermarkets, you can purchase DVDs of films that are 3-10 years old from the 20th Century Fox catalog at 3 for $20.00. I’ve gotten collection of literally 100 movies from the 30s thru 50s for $19.99. They are mostly A-/B+ movies, but there are some classics (like Royal Wedding & The Caine Mutiny) among the collection so they can put something eye catching and familiar on the packaging.

One nice thing about this from the legal perspective is that if the MPAA ever sues someone for infringing, oh pardon me, “stealing”, a 1940s film-noire, the fair market value of that is 50 cents. $150,000 in statutory damages would seem to violate the US Constitutions “excessive fines” clause (which trumps copyright law.)

–TurboGeek

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 04:50:58 +0000

The friggin’ music criminals are getting away with charging more for less with “purchased” (try LEASED) downloaded music, and I bet the proles are just dumb enough to pay hollwood whatever grossly inflated prices they throw at them. There’s plenty of idiots out there with more money than common sense and hollywood KNOWS IT.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:53:58 +0000

only can access site with IE,

Sorry, but in order to enjoy the Movielink service you must use Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher, which supports certain technologies we utilize for downloading movies. Click here to get the latest version of Internet Explorer.

We do not support Mozilla or Netscape. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

what a load of crock, utilized for downloading…..hahahahahahahha

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:47:59 +0000

I agree. If I pay for it it’s MINE. When they take it away from me with their DRM they’re STEALING what I paid for.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:29:30 +0000

Still overpriced. How about 7, 5, 3.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:12:39 +0000

Clearly the big studios will never just let people download films free of any DRM, as much as we’d love them to.

But looking at some of the small print it’s clear they still have a way to go before film downloads are accepted.

For one, the insistance on making people play these films on a PC (Windows only?) is a major stumbling block, as is the fact these films cannot be burned to DVDs that could be played on stand-alone players.

If the studios have any hope of persuading the BitTorrent-using masses to use their service they really are going to have to start TRUSTING them - people download from ‘illegal’ P2P all the time, some because they just want free stuff, but others do it because there is no viable, reliable and above all FLEXIBLE download service.

So, major studios, don’t be too surprised when BitTorrent useage continues to rise whilst your attempts fail.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 21:05:51 +0000

CNet’s Buzz Out Loud podcast featured this the other day:

http://dw.com.com/redir/file.mp3?destURL=http://www.cnet.com/i/pod/cnetbuzz_040306.mp3&ctype=podCast&cval=BuzzOutLoud;040306&tag=txt [direct download]

… and they didn’t have a good thing to say about it. It’s a good trashing actually.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 20:32:09 +0000

My CinemaNow is called free dvd movie downloads muhahaha!!
sony and co can kiss my ass.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 18:29:27 +0000

I went to movielink’s site and it refused access cause I’m not American. I loaded the page through a US proxy server and voila, I could see the treasure trove.

They still don’t get it. Consumers want access, they want choice and competition, they want an internet not an intranet. They are attempting to break the web for profit in the same manner as they’ve been breaking every rule of free market competition for decades.

They want to lock me in with DRM, I’ll continue ’shopping’ for torrents.