DVD stupidity again
Jan. 1st, 2011 03:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miriam_eA friend just showed me a DVD of a quite beautiful film. It is the sort of film I'd like to add to my collection, but I don't think I'll be buying it. The manufacturers have used a weird kind of "protection" that makes it extremely irritating to play on computer and very difficult to rip (she wanted a backup). If I can figure out a way to back it up then I might buy the DVD, but really, I have better things to do with my time than spend it untangling the absurd contortions people go to to make their stuff hard to use.
I feel sorry for the artists involved in the film. Their work will not get the exposure it could. I wonder when the film industry will get the message that what they call "piracy" actually promotes sales. Their own figures prove it, showing an unprecedented growth in film audience in lock-step with DVD ripping, in the same way that the sales of music exploded with the proliferation of recordable audio cassettes, and libraries enhance book sales instead of detracting from them. Unfortunately they believe their own incredibly expensive propaganda campaign.
I feel sorry for the artists involved in the film. Their work will not get the exposure it could. I wonder when the film industry will get the message that what they call "piracy" actually promotes sales. Their own figures prove it, showing an unprecedented growth in film audience in lock-step with DVD ripping, in the same way that the sales of music exploded with the proliferation of recordable audio cassettes, and libraries enhance book sales instead of detracting from them. Unfortunately they believe their own incredibly expensive propaganda campaign.