On Mon, 12 May 2008 09:11:14 -0500 Jer <gdunn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
| phil-news-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
|> On Mon, 12 May 2008 00:24:52 -0500 Jer <gdunn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
|> | phil-news-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
|> |> 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.
Don't worry, the MPAA will eventually make sure you get equally screwed on
the
rentals.
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