It's a pitty the same thing does not apply with digital movies. If I buy a DVD and play it on my Philips player, it will still play if I decide to move to a Sony player or even a generic one. So DRM which is supposed to be a measure to fight piracy in those cases might become an incentive to do illegal stuffs. Namely "circumventing" DRM or remove the DRM protection from the files, which is illegal in most of the countries. Only way to free yourself from those limitations would be doing illegal stuff. What if you want to centralize all your media with a NAS and want to access from different platforms ? With DRMs, from the moment we buy things on a platform, we tie yourselves with a company, with its hardware. I've hundreds of DVDs myself.īut I want to move to digital medias because of physical space and because of today's technology - NAS - allowing us to access our digital media anywhere. That's why I've no issue with the fact that when you download a movie for offline viewing with the Netflix app, the file you get is DRM'd.
As you said, there are less people involved but anyway, it is still a nice decision for the honest end user.įor renting, I do agree that DRM is definitely the way to go. Music industry got it right and in the end, all music which is in my iPod has been paid. So it might be less than a drop in all the seven seas of the globe but I'll not give any penny for DRM'd content to the film industry. In the end, this is the real and honest guy who pays who is screwed, not the pirates who don't give a f*** that studios apply DRM to iTunes, Play Store, Ultraviolet content. Interoperability (a DVD or BlueRay will work on any player) Preserve the media if a company runs out of business -> accessible "forever" ).Īnd adding the DRM thing to digital versions, for me, cuts some of the advantages of getting digital medias instead of physical ones.
I think that to keep the same standards in terms of profit, they will need to still sell license (watherver the format, iTunes, Google Play, DVD, Blueray, Ultraviolet. However, buying one movie (license to be precise, as you rightly stated) USD 9.99+ is a different story. I do think that it's not the USD 11.99 Netflix is charging per month that will make the movie industry rich.
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