Movie execs worried about Blu-Ray

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Bboid said:

blue ray is also an attempt to keep people from moving formats, there is nothing more profitable for these people then keeping you from moving a copy of something you own, making you buy a new one

 

Well, though I agree with what is said, from the other side, up to now; there are multiple reasons behind this.  Im not saying I 100% agree with either side but i do see each view.  It basically boils down to a war against piracy.  You can say its bull all you want, but it cuts into their profits and they are in the business to make profit.  You do not technically own a movie you purchase.  You own a small round disc or a string of binary numbers which gives you permission to view the material that said producer has published.  It's not so much they are forcing you onto a single format to keep you on that format, they are forcing a format because they are trying to narrow it down the number of formats to track.  We probably pay a 100% premium for movies and games these days solely for businesses to make up for lost profits from piracy.  Greed vs. Greed, who wins?

 

I feel as if this post might derail the thread, but fighting piracy is a legit issue that none of us truely like.

 

ah the war of ownership, see here is where it gets murky because copyright law says i can have copies, to keep a backup, and even use that back up if I want as the primary copy even if its in a difrent format as long as i dont reditriute it. they try and cricumvent this by encoding it, and the only way we can make copies (which we have a right to do) now is by breaking an a corprate law about reverse engineering.  catch 22.  

I am against pircay too, I buy all my movies, regardless of format. 

edit more no the way we make copies, there was a loop hole in dvd, if you got it from the player to the tv, you could make a legal copy without breaking any laws. however with the advent of blueray, special technology was developed to keep this from happening now you must reverse engineer it to get the copy which is illegal. they went so far as to convince MS to happer fx card output to make sure that there was no way someone could get a copy by ripping straight video...... they failed but they crippled performance of an OS