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Entroper said:

Blue3 said:

Its their product, they can add what ever the hell they want. They can make what ever they want, they can put any restricions they want on it.

If customers dont like it they wont buy it and it will fail, forcing them to change it.

They sure as hell are not taking away any of your rights, its YOUR choice to buy it or not.

So what you're saying is, it's my choice to have DRM'd high def movies, or to not have high def movies at all? What the hell kind of choice is that? The "if customers don't like it they won't buy it" argument falls down very quickly because most customers don't even understand DRM, and even if they do, they usually don't have other ways to get the same content.

It's not about legal backups, it's about not having restrictions on your content. My LCD monitor uses DVI, but isn't HDCP-enabled. A lot of HDTVs from a few years ago aren't HDCP-enabled either. Guess what, when high def movies come out that will only work with HDCP, these customers get downsampled versions of the content. What if you want to use component video instead of HDMI or DVI? Yup, you get downsampled content. DRM is at least as much about making customers jump through hoops and buy new hardware as it is about protecting content from being copied

 However, with the exception of Sony, this thread is about movie companies, and I don't really think the movie companies could care less about whether you have HDCP or DVI or not, so you can't say the movie companies are liking Blu-Ray because they want you to but the latest TV, they want it because they want it to be harder for people to pirate their music. Personally anyone who copies movies I have an instant distaste for, because you know what? I'm actually a law-abiding citizen, and I don't like the few people who pirate movies, or shoplift, driving the prices up for the most of us. So the fewer people who pirate stuff, the better.