more DVD silliness
Jun. 14th, 2012 09:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miriam_eSome years ago I was given a downloaded copy of a movie which I enjoyed very much. Because of this I kept an eye out for availability of the DVD. I finally saw it in the shop yesterday and bought it. I feel it is important to send my appreciation in a concrete form to those artists who give me pleasure. This has the side-benefit that I get a good quality copy as a nice, reliable archive. At least that's the theory. When I got this DVD home I attempted to copy it to my hard drive for viewing and was unable to do so. This bound to happen sooner or later, but was extremely irritating. I've spent my money on it; I want to be able to use it.
Through a lot of time and effort I finally managed to copy it to my drive, but it was so annoying that some of the bad feeling has rubbed off onto the film itself.
When I was buying this DVD I noticed that the sequel was also in the shop, and almost bought it as well, but not having seen that yet I was reluctant to part with my money. I'm very glad I didn't. I won't be buying it. There are plenty of other good movies on my to-buy list that I can actually use.
Why make your product less usable?
Yes, I know the standard rationalisations, but they don't actually make sense to anyone not brainwashed by the massively expensive propaganda campaign the big studios have been running.
The movie is already out there on the net. It is rather like closing the gate after the horse has bolted. And when the recording industry attempted to make compact audio cassettes illegal (and luckily failed), the proliferation of mix-tapes that everybody gave to their friends brought about a new flowering of the music industry, not its death. A look at the earnings of the film industry indicates the same thing is happening there, coincident with easy movie sharing.
Through a lot of time and effort I finally managed to copy it to my drive, but it was so annoying that some of the bad feeling has rubbed off onto the film itself.
When I was buying this DVD I noticed that the sequel was also in the shop, and almost bought it as well, but not having seen that yet I was reluctant to part with my money. I'm very glad I didn't. I won't be buying it. There are plenty of other good movies on my to-buy list that I can actually use.
Why make your product less usable?
Yes, I know the standard rationalisations, but they don't actually make sense to anyone not brainwashed by the massively expensive propaganda campaign the big studios have been running.
The movie is already out there on the net. It is rather like closing the gate after the horse has bolted. And when the recording industry attempted to make compact audio cassettes illegal (and luckily failed), the proliferation of mix-tapes that everybody gave to their friends brought about a new flowering of the music industry, not its death. A look at the earnings of the film industry indicates the same thing is happening there, coincident with easy movie sharing.