Vista Crippled By Content Protection

the-void said:
If people are prepared to watch DVD rips converted into DIVX, VCD or even filmed by camcorder in a cinema, why do the movie companies feel that down sampling HD-DVD to slightly less than DVD quality (when the chain of trust is broken) is going to be any deterrent.

The movie studio's could drastically reduce piracy if they released the DVD/HD-DVD at the same time as the film is released in the cinema's. They would also need to release the film in all countries at the same time as well.
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Realistically, neither of those things are likely to happen in the near future. Movie studios are worried about piracy by all means, but the loss of income by releasing DVDs at the same time as a Cinema release would be worse than any potential reduction in piracy. More importantly, I'd say that the vast majority of pirates don't care in the slightest about whether it's available to pay for or not, they won't pay whatever - complaining about release dates and digital rights management is just an excuse.
 
The resolution on analogue inputs using ict (no films currently use ict and they won't until 2010) is reduced to 960x540 which is still higher than dvd quality, seems pointless though as pirates would rather have the 960x540 version than pay £20 for a hd-dvd release of it months after it's release in america.

I know a few people who wouldn't pirate if media was avalible for legal download at a reasonable price at a reasonable date, by companies not bringing themselves upto date with technology they are losing out. Can you imagine what the price of dvds would be like if there was no piracy? Prices would soar as companies realised that no one could turn to piracy if they didn't like the high prices.
 
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PinkPig said:
More importantly, I'd say that the vast majority of pirates don't care in the slightest about whether it's available to pay for or not, they won't pay whatever - complaining about release dates and digital rights management is just an excuse.
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Wrong. Your looking at it from a tech savvy viewpoint and from someone with enough technical know how to be able to source the material and then provide the correct codecs to play it, and risking viruses and all other sorts of nasties. There are plenty of consumers who buy pirated copies from dodgy people in pubs, car boots, and market stalls. I could take you down to our local market where out on the open is a couple of market stalls selling copied movies and games. Their trade is brisk I can tell you.

But then, I would call the people on the market stall the pirates and the people who buy their wares consumers and not pirates. To say all pirates wont pay is laughable. I thought international terrorism was funded by pirated movies (at least that's what some anti-piracy "educational" adverts have been telling us). Perhaps one way Al-Queda could be shut down is for movie companies to release the DVD's at the same time as the cinema release. Why are the movie companies suprised there is piracy when in effect they are forcing people to go to cinema's to watch the latest film. Not everyone wants to sit with a bunch of noisy scallies and chav's. Not to mention the inflated prices for watered down cola's. Have you been to a cinema these days? Have you heard the number of "RING TONES" from mobiles, and people who just talk all the way through the film. Small wonder people put up with downscaled, DIVX and VCD quality films in there own home (its actually MORE watchable)
 
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