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> On Mon, 12 May 2008 00:24:52 -0500 Jer <gdunn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> | phil-news-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> |> On Sun, 11 May 2008 14:10:35 -0700 SAC 441 <SAC441@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> |>
> |> | The MPAA/RIAA cabal is now mandating that all
> |> | Pay Per View have a Digital Rights Management coding that allows
for the
> |> | expiration of a selection/purchase on a DVR after 24 hours on
> |> | satellite systems whether viewed or not.If they also start to
implement
> |> | this "feature" on CATV systems as well,Pay Per View is and will be
a
> |> | very unattractive option.In fact,it will downright "suck".
> |>
> |> The 24 hour restriction applies to viewing the REMAINDER of a movie
once you
> |> have STARTED to view it. You can keep the movie for a longer period
of time
> |> like 30 to 90 days before you START to view it.
> |>
> |
> |
> | I recall reading about this somewhere, and this is the same inference
I
> | got. There are times when I'll record a program, but the phone rings
> | and I'm gone for a week or two before I get the chance to watch it. A
> | 24 hours leash would crimp a schedule like that. However, any
> | time-relevant leash would require some expectation that an internal
> | clock function is maintained accurately and beyond viewer control.
>
> If you have already _started_ to watch the movie, then yes, that can be
a
> problem. But it's not as bad of a problem for most people as the
previous
> incorrect inference had suggested.
>
> They would be better off with a system that could correctly track how
you
> play the movie, and know that you have not finished it and let you
resume
> again later, possibly even starting over from the beginning. I suppose
> what they don't want is for the movie to be playing over and over and
over
> hour after hour, day after day, as people visit and watch it any time
they
> want to. It would not be hard to prevent that and still let you resume
the
> movie you started 4 weeks ago. Maybe their programmers are not the good
> ones that could code the firmware to do that in a couple hours.
>
If parity with rental services is anything relevant, why would they care
how many times I watched the movie during the prescribed rental
interval? I've watched many movies more than once.
--
jer
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