2013-04-03, 03:12
(2013-04-03, 02:46)Ned Scott Wrote: What you're saying is what the studios actually believe; that DRM has any significant impact on piracy at all. It doesn't. Joe six pack doesn't have to be a master DRM cracker, he just has to get an easy copy of the movie that someone else already made. The avarage pirate doesnt rip content, they just download it. For the common man, piracy is still easy. Some people pirate only because it's easier to access the content that way, and would otherwise be willing to pay for it.
This is why iTunes and other per-song music stores took off and became successful. They made buying music easier than pirating it. It's also DRM free.
At best, Cinevia stops bootleggers who attempt to sell fake bluray discs as if they were real retail discs. That's about it.
For everyone else, it's a misguided attempt that has no real results. It has no realistic impact on piracy, but it does end up punishing the honest customers with crappy restrictions.
And that is why it is working. Joe six pack doesn't automatically know someone who has acces to ripped movies. You are only seeing the world via your own viewpoint. Since you are one of the elite and all around you are part of that group you come to the conclusion that everybody has access to what you got. Well no. Even today MOST people don't copy or rip media. Most people don't even care in having a movie or a music library at home be it on a server, an htpc or in physical form. We care but they don't. And of the few who like to own their favorite movies, they BUY the disc so they don't have to fiddle with codecs, format and other technical mumbo jumbo...<
(2013-04-03, 02:58)nickr Wrote: I live in NZ. We are usually way behind ther rest of the world in TV episodes.
This season of Game of Thrones however is playing less than 24 hours after the US broadcast. Part of the reason is to reduce piracy - the reasoning being that if people can see it on their own TV station [1], they won't need to pirate it. This is apparently a worldwide thing with GoT. Everywhere is getting it soon after the initial showing.
Still doesn't stop there being 6,000 odd people on one torrent alone that I saw for the season opener!
Nor headlines like this http://www.throng.co.nz/2013/04/piracy-r...on-opener/ (which makes the torrent stats I saw look tiny!)
The thing is, people will share. Cinavia will be got around.
[1] Of course it doesn't help that it is shown on Pay TV here in NZ, so not available to everyone.
A whole 6,000... A drop in the ocean then.
Yes in time Cinavia will get circumvented but it will have played its role by then and another system will replace it. Hell, circumventing DRM is part of the game!
WARNING: I'm not advocating for DRM. Hell, I have a 24Tb HTPC and I'm ripping DVD as I type this. But I understand the rationnal and the business side of it. I may not like it, just as you do, but I learned to live with it.
