BTW, under my proposal anyone can copy a movies which are in the public domain and sell copies.

As to the second point, that GWB would get his hand into more money, I doubt a change in the system to finance movies can be put in place before GWB leaves office. Now, if you cannot trust the American government to do it right, how can you trust it with the atom bomb?

There would be no world tax. There may not even be a heavy country tax, as financing can be (in USA) at State level too. As to countries that want to continue with the production of private enterprise movies, they will continue until the people pressure the local government for low cost and high quality movie entertaiment as is available in other countries.

My proposal is not that private enterprise be prohibited. Perhaps, as in education, parks, museums, sports, public and private may coexist and even compete with each other. I personally think that if in the public sector a reasonably good job is done, the public sector will prevail.

I do think that if private movies are made, they should only have a copyright of five to years duration.

Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com

I’m not against an SD card, just being forced to buy something else. Screw new formats. Keep what we have. Make a DVR that takes every brand out there.

It kinda pisses me off that my ____ dvd record will only work with DVD+RW manufactured by ___. My vcr will record on any brand, no questions asked.

1. People pay the government whatever amount they want used for the production of movies. This would be a tax. This tax would be for less money than what people and television stations now spend on movies.

2. The people (government) finance the production of movies.

3. Far fewer movies would be required than are now produced because now more movies are produced than individuals will ever see, nd most movies are worthless.

4. The movie will be public domain once produced.

5. The people can copy the movies to whatever format or location is most convenient.

Now, for those of you who would reject the idea because they are socialist or communist, just remeber two points:

a. The proposed system is similar to the military, fincanced with public money and whatever armament is produced is paid by the people. Just like armaments are produced by private forms, so can movies.

b. Public servants of a given country are no mre corrupt than movie producrs or lawyers or politicians or teachers (etc) of the same country.

c. Movie entertainment will be far less expensive and far more accessible.

Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com

I Have at least 1000 cds and 250 dvds and i don’t plan to buy a lot of them in bulk soon.

I have a lot of cds that are not from the big four recording cartels and frankly there is a lot of music that will not make it into the SACD or DVD audio format.

PLAIN AND SIMPLE………………..

Ditto for the the blue ray and the hdd format so as far as the cd and dvd completely made obsolete is fucking bullshit.

I like the cd and dvd format.

I have a total of 6 six computers and all of them have every kind decss program and burning program one can think of.

Drm is just a MINOR INCONVENIANCE AND ANNOYANCE………..

There is nothing that can’t be undone.

Remember how much of a hardon the MPAA had for dvd jon when he cracked the decss code ?

The same thing will happen with the blueray and hdd formats, wait and see.

Until it does,
Me, and many many other WILL NEVER BUY AGAIN.
Ever.

It has been proven time and time again, that no DRM is foolproof.
Not one single DRM scheme has ever proven to be uncrackable.

( someone may say “what about Microsoft’s DRM “, I say
the main reason for THAT is simply because the Microsoft
media formats suck so badly than no one is INTERESTED in
cracking it )

This IS a revolution.
More and more people are finding the “R” in DRM stands for
“Restrictions” and are getting sick of it. The harder DRM is pushed
the more people WILL find the .. alternatives .

And, Guess what RIAA/MPAA,
Most of those that currently DO DL instead of purchase WOULD
buy if there were NO DRM, because it would be much less a hassle
than using the “nets”

The RIAA/MPAA are the ones that need the lesson.
I am a realistic person as well.
And, realistically, giving up is never the answer.

No matter the format direction the studio’s are going to push harder DRM restrictions and whether it be 2 devices or 10, there will always be someone who wants to play it in every room of their house and also go to each of their friends homes and play it too, so there isn’t a DRM friendly way to move into the future.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for fair use and removal of DRM – but it’s not going to happen, it’s simply not. So while looking as realistically as I can at where I think they should go the memory stick seems the only way to still have digital and brick and mortar storefront places still exist…though I don’t see them being around for long either.

DVD, VCD, CD – why do I have a problem with the format? Let’s see, again, I have kids, disk’s get scratched and then I’m stuck buying another dang copy because my kids ‘have’ to have xyz movie! I’m tired of it. We need either a durable media or a durable license – if my disk breaks I either want to legally be able to download the movie from the production company and burn it myself or I need to be able to bring my broken disk to a storefront and be able to exchange it for free….. forever.

Now, I’m a realistic person. A p2p advocate. A parent. A consumer of media product now and then.

Something’s got to give. We’re either going to move to an online-service based access or a direct access at a storefront where they transfer it’s DRM infected product to my memory card or one of theirs.

No matter what though – 20 years from now, these disks are not going to be around – while movie DVD’s are rated for a long life, those raters haven’t met my kids that scratch and kill most movies within a year (if that).

Ok, I’ll stop ranting.. Just my 10 cents.
_-Jile-_

I agree there is a pent up demand for downloaded/HD stored media releases, but there will also be a demand for portable media formats that do not depend on a net connection for quite awhile.

Also, albums have already been released on SD cards & USB memory sticks.

The disc to solid state shift is pretty much inevitable.

This whole statement is wrong, I work where there is 1700 employees and I know a whole lot of them on a first name basic, a lot of us socialize together which includes talking and viewing movies, no one has ever said that they are tired of the current formats and want to change but I have heard people say I wish they would quit fixing things that are not broken!

“After it confirms the key, it associates the movie with your online account and you copy the movie to your local player and auth it, although you’d be limited to two authorized players.”

My son’s Go Diego Go dvd has been in almost 10 different players just this past weekend alone, (we own three, so do my folks and his friends etc etc) limiting his DVD to just two players is not the solution.

The only reason I still buy is because the DVD works in any player and Walmart sells them for under $10. Take that away from me and you will lose what little I spend on media now. As a parent I would much rather take me son to the zoo, playground, etc etc then have him sit inside and watch a video.