Can Microsoft afford another price cut??? erm NO

[drpunk]

Dystopian Delight said:

drpunk said:

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.

 

I don't want to get into semantics, it looks like you do.

It's not digital distribution in the sense that we are talking here. When companies talk about digital distribution of films/music they do not mean they're gonna rip their music/movies and offer them for free on torrents. Why not say digital distribution is not secure because I can copy a file from folder A to folder B. That's being digitally distributed, but it's not the digital distribution we are talking about.

And I don't see how security can be a moot point when the industry has been paranoid about it for years. It's practically the most important point for these companies since the advent of mp3s.