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Originally Posted by gideongallery
your locking down the content denying people their fair use right of backup. You may think that the best solution but there are two things
1. your customer over time are getting pissed off with your
2. the courts are clarifying more and more that right is justified
that is going to come to a head it two possible ways
some of the porn guys will finally wake up and learn how to do branding bugs and watermarks right, generate the same results while fully respecting fair use rights and eat you alive.
2. one of your customer will finally get so pissed off at you that they will not only rip your stuff but fight you thru the courts. If the lenz vs universal case comes down the way it looks like it will that will be a very expensive battle. (rememeber that $900/seed now imageing 900/former customer).
i suspect it will be number 2 because to many people are clueless listening to you rather than simply testing out the differences between doing watermarks wrong (today) and doing them right (like tv) and seeing it themselves.
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protected content has it's own legal issues, cracking the content is criminal. American, Canadian, International laws respect this. Screw copyright, screw all the other crap.. The rules totally change. DRM is a good thing for porn, online 'information', scripts/software/programs, limited access/features, etc.
It's not good for people that want to change it, duplicate, backup or "own in hand." this is why Music, DVD's, TV and so on don't do well on DRM. But they do great on demand, without owning it, backing it up, etc.
DRM helps many people make money it just isn't the solution for everyone.
People do not NEED to download the content, they only want to watch it "on demand." Even you said this.
If your tour has the same streaming material as your members area, it offers no downloads, it never says it has downloads, the members will not expect downloads.
They expect what is sold to them and nothing more. If DRM was "the killer" you think it is AEBN wouldn't be the money machine for producers and webmasters, the biggest of them all, that they are.