View Single Post
Old 12-09-2006, 09:08 AM  
BlackCrayon
Too lazy to set a custom title
 
BlackCrayon's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Ottawa
Posts: 19,631
Quote:
Originally Posted by Relentless View Post
If that were the only group affected Id agree entirely. However, a great many of todays surfers are "collectors." Take a look at the price drop of large consumer media storage devices in the past 6-8 months.

Costco is now selling 500GB external harddrives for around $200.00 and they are flying off the shelves. Who do you think is buying them? Do you have any idea how many spreadsheets you'd have to make to fill 500GB? heh

Surfers are storing well made content on firewire drives the same way their parents once stored prime copies of playboy in a footlocker or closet. DRM is the equivalent of Playboy coming to your house in 1979 and asking for your copy of their most recent magazine back at the end of each month.
i agree that surfers should be able to download files from the sites to have on their hard drives but do not agree with them sharing files on bit torrent or whatever else. thinking from a surfers point of view, i wouldn't want to have to visit the site each time i wanted to watch a video from it.
__________________
you don't know you're wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day..
BlackCrayon is offline   Share thread on Digg Share thread on Twitter Share thread on Reddit Share thread on Facebook Reply With Quote