Comments on: NBC Will Stop Selling Its Stuff On iTunes http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/08/31/nbc-will-stop-selling-its-stuff-on-itunes/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:46:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Gizmo Central http://www.crunchgear.com/2007/08/31/nbc-will-stop-selling-its-stuff-on-itunes/#comment-394282 Gizmo Central Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:15:15 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2007/08/31/nbc-will-stop-selling-its-stuff-on-itunes/#comment-394282 I agree completely. The people who are actually paying for the shows are the ones who will be lost. The pirates get everything free so they will not be affected. Just like copy protection on games: you buy the game and you have to deal with keeping it in the drive and waiting 45 seconds for the stupid check to run. If you download the game, all that hassle is removed. Nice reward for PAYING for the game, huh? I can't stand going to those ad-filled network TV sites and watching a 40 minute show (plus ads, most likely) in a damned browser. And I sure as hell was not impressed back when I tried one of the networks Winbloze-only DRM players that required installation (hint: it sucked ass). At first, I thought these old-school media companies had learned something and were embracing technology to some reasonable level. Now, though, I see that they're regressing and clearly still completely fail to understand what the computer-generation wants. I agree completely. The people who are actually paying for the shows are the ones who will be lost. The pirates get everything free so they will not be affected. Just like copy protection on games: you buy the game and you have to deal with keeping it in the drive and waiting 45 seconds for the stupid check to run. If you download the game, all that hassle is removed. Nice reward for PAYING for the game, huh?

I can’t stand going to those ad-filled network TV sites and watching a 40 minute show (plus ads, most likely) in a damned browser. And I sure as hell was not impressed back when I tried one of the networks Winbloze-only DRM players that required installation (hint: it sucked ass).

At first, I thought these old-school media companies had learned something and were embracing technology to some reasonable level. Now, though, I see that they’re regressing and clearly still completely fail to understand what the computer-generation wants.

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