Disney online film sales
p2p news / p2pnet: Disney’s Buena Vista Home Entertainment is set to start selling films online via CinemaNow, "including new films on the day they come out," says the BBC.
They won’t be made available via a popular Hollywood system under which flics self-destruct after a brief period, but they will be loaded with DRM.
Disney will sell on a download-to-own basis, says the Beeb, adding the service has a June 6 start, "after five Hollywood rivals launched similar services in April."
"Until April, major studios in Hollywood had been reluctant to offer their films on the internet for fear that this would encourage illegal copying of their films and dent revenue from box office and video rental sales," adds the story.
Also See:
BBC – Disney to sell films via the web, May 31, 2006
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May 31st, 2006 at 2:23 pm
DVD’s also have DRM in the form of CCS and Macrovision .
These protections are very easy to remove but they are still DRM.
May 31st, 2006 at 2:29 pm
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Yes they are.
Easy to remove the DRM, sure … also supposedly
ILLEGAL to circumvent the DRM.
That’s why I don’t purchase DVD’s.
That’s why Blue Ray will never be in my home.
If I am not allowed to do what I want with what I
pay good money for, for my own personal use, I won’t
buy it.
May 31st, 2006 at 2:57 pm
‘Cause, you know, Microsoft make the best file formats.