MPAA vs. Real: Five reasons why Hollywood will win

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RE: MPAA vs. Real: Five reasons why Hollywood will win

It seems to me that anti-trust could have been a serious
approach: trade group enforces via technology the
abrogation of consumers' fair use rights in order to protect
its product's price.

Meanwhile, out here, DVD sales have gone flat. People like
me have run out of room and now buy digital or rent. The
digital files take up less physical space and watching
without the little motor spinning lengthens battery time.

This embargo on personal ripping hasn't slowed down
what the MPAA calls piracy. I'm not even really sure how
the next 100,000 files of a title on p2p really affects the
business model, were it even a likely consequence of lifting a no
personal ripping edict. Once a 1000 sites offer a title, isn't the
damage done and couldn't those sites be offering copies of the same
singular rip?

And let's think about the damage. Record opening
weekends for movies all year. Wolverine, the poster film
for being completely swashbuckled opens with 90 million
- and the critics hated it.

So, I look at a trial like this and it looks like a real waste of
money and time. The MPAA should have set up a licensing
regimen for Real's DVD ripper devices and given
consumers one more reason to buy DVDs.

Posted by: DannyO_0x98   Posted on: 05/18/09  (Edited: 05/18/2009 @ 07:24) You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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