Strazdas said:
this is 2013 and you still have not managed to get rid of region locks, what kind of stupidity is this? why woudl i ever buy a player that had such restrictions. remmeber when music players tried that? yeah, half of the legal songs didint play. this will never work. besides either the devices will get cracked real easy or they will simulate the whatever few bytes of checked they have on the software and will priate it anyway.
Funny story: when they started pulling this, my PC was my only CD player. Yeah, that shit used to crash my computer.
But why would you do it? I don't know, why would you buy a DVD player? They're already copy-protected. It's bad copy protection, but it's copy protection.
The music industry probably deeply regrets the Compact Disc, because they created what was effectively the perfect physical format for music. So good it resisted all successors to date. It's a shame so many CDs now sound like they were mastered for low-quality iTunes files.
But yeah, I object to being treated like a dirty thieving pirate. I've got binders and binders of CDs I purchased legally and while I buy digital, I still buy CDs. As a consumer, I've moved more and more away from purchasing CDs from the major labels. It doesn't hurt that I'm a pair of skinny jeans and douchy facial hair away from being a hipster, so I largely don't miss it. I'll swallow my pride for certain bands (currently buying my way through the remasters of Queen, the Beatles and the Beach Boys), but in general their loss of my money is more to my lack of interest in their product and my dislike of the way they treat me.
rob_simple said:
I'll just stick to my Blu-Rays, then. They look fantastic on my TV, so I don't see what benefit I'd get from this new, more restrictive system.
BD was also progressively more restrictive system, and it helped push HDCP into being a mainstay. This is one of the reasons it had so much studio support: BD was more restrictive than the protocols for HD-DVD. This was kind of a big deal.
SinisterGehe said:
I love how piracy makes the honest customers life harder with each "innovation".
Piracy doesn't. Companies do.
subabuser said:
When will corporations learn they just cant own us, they can borrow us for a while but they will never be able to totally control flow of information.
Probably when we, the consumer, stop giving them the impression. People will break free and/or pirate media, but the increasingly restricted media will still continue to sell and sell big with the mainstream consumer. The industry will continue to grow, all while they continue to complain that piracy is ruining them and they are totally going broke. We reward this behaviour by buying into it. It's a huge business and it's still getting bigger.
Now, I don't know if this applies to you, but it applies to consumers as a whole. And it is progressive, it's been downhill since the days of video cassette at the very least (when taping off the radio was killing the industry and we had Betamax lawsuits).
And as such...
Saulkar said:
And thus begins the age of licensing our media on devices that dictate our every use of them and soon a maximum audience size.
"So it begins" is a sentiment that's decades late.
