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About the hacker thing, well duh, it only takes 20 minutes (45 on a slow computer) to rip any DVD onto the computer and then you have it forever. Yes it's illegal and immoral, but it is the same as wrapping it in a vacuum-shrink cover or putting the dvd player in an oxygen free environment in order to get more life out of it. One day, corporations will realize that hackers are the most environmentally friendly group of all!
I would be happy to pay for a DRM free digital-only copy, since my computers are linked up to my home theater anyways.
By the way, DivX is an Audio+Video Codec named after the company who also released the DivX Player, DivX Inc. The quickly-doomed disposable dvd was called DIVX and required special DVD players... the failure cost Circuit City over $100 million. To add to the confusion, some modern DVD players will play videos encoded with the DivX codec, and will be marked "DivX compatible".
Go figure. Sometimes it seems technology takes two steps forward and one big step backward.
and no this is NOT immoral or "wrong" in my book.
just so happens that it's part of the buyer/consumer
system which has limits that is destroying our
way of living on earth..... until others realize we
gotta move away from identifying ourselves as consumers and buyers( or at least find another environmental friendly ECONOMIC-system),until then, this will be immoral to those, and not to me.
hence my collection of movies on my pc :)
Now, I can definitely see building up a library on my PC and using that instead of discs. I can see using NetFlix or Blockbuster, or RedBox - especially if the rental places are on the way to/from work or similar. I can also see owning certain movies. I still think this particular idea is just another effort by a dying system trying to squeeze what it can from the consumers. I also seem to remember the last time this was tried, the discs didn't work properly and died unevenly or too soon - I'm assuming that's gotten better.
FWIR - DivX was a "phone-home" system. You needed a player connected to a phone line to verify your right to play the movie. The actual compression technology for video is pretty useful, though - allowing a regular DVD to compress down easily to CD size with no appreciable quality loss to most people. There was a competitor to DivX that did this before and it just didn't work too well.
In other news - any word of how well this tech is selling? That would be interesting.
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