Can Microsoft afford another price cut??? erm NO

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drpunk said:

DOATS1 said:

drpunk said:

DOATS1 said:

drpunk said:

The Fury said:

This is another advantage for film companies and other in general, piracy must be stopped and music pircay is far to wide spread to restrict at the moment. but Blu-Ray is secure, digital distrubution is not. Compaines as a whole to maximise profit will choose the secure one.

I disagree with that. Digital distribution is much more secure than discs .

 

 

you...you are joking, right?

 

Not at all.

Didn't it take something like 6 months to crack blu ray's encryption?

 

oh no i'm not disputing whther blu-ray can be cracked or not. but digital distribution is nowhere near secure. at this very moment, i can get ANY music track, movie, tv show and video game i want through torrent sites, as long as somebody uploads it, and i don't have to pay a penny for them.

That's not digital distribution. That's pirating. Made easy by CDs and DVDs, i.e. discs.

Funnily enough, none of the stuff you download contains any DRM. The stuff to make digital distribution secure. And no, that's not even 100% secure, but it's still early days and it's changing all the time.

The thing with digital distribution is that it's down to the hardware to make it secure. An example would be rented films off of Live. You can't get those films off the drive, the 360 won't let you. I'm not 100% sure but I'm pretty sure that those films are secure. I've not done a great deal of research into it and I'm willing to be proved wrong.

But I'll stand by digital distribution being more secure than discs. The fact that we'll be forced in that direction proves that.

 

how can you not call that digital distribution? there are files(digital) being accessed by a multitude of people(distribution). If you want to get down to semantics, all physical items have to exist before the digital version so I don't really understand your point.

As for security I think it's a moot point since if a person doesn't want to pay for the media then they won't, they can just get it another way.