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John Biggs
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January 16, 2007
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And so it begins…
I love when people think anything is uncrackable.
I think the sheer SIZE is better DRM than the encryption.
20GB, even over a good broadband connection, is a time consuming and sporadic download over BitTorrent. Plus you’re gating your own upload bandwidth during the process.
Then you have to store it (though I suppose it helps that Hitachi recently announced a terabyte drive which will store 50 of these suckers). Storage has a cost.
And convenience: it means you need the drive in close proximity to the HD screen you’re going to play it on.
Of course, once ripped it means a DivX HD can be made and distributed (approx. 1.5 GB), which is smaller to download, but is more compressed and blocky, no chapter breaks, extras, etc.
Personally, I’d prefer to pay the $25 to get a genuine disc and avoid all that. Or just rent the thing on NetFlix.
Theres no need to store it to be honest, when BLURAY-RW and HDDVD-RW become standard you can just make your own disc, im not condoneing piracy, but i am condemning the godamn drm, i like to burn copies of my discs so i can keep the orignals in their box away from wear and tear and DRM just makes ita pain in the ars.