Download Films from Warner?.... I think not
Apparently Warner Brothers are planning on selling film downloads over BitTorrent.
This appears to be an attempt to give people a legal way to download films direct from the studio... To try and reduce piracy.
(Ignore the fact that pirates typically kill people to steal everything they have, and that what they really mean is 'copyright infringement'. It's not as scary that way round is it?)
Let's look at the reasons this is total bullshit:
Legal: The downloads will be available on the same day as the DVD gets into the shops.
Not so: The free version will probably be available before it even makes it to the cinema.
Score 1-0
Legal: It'll cost the same as a DVD.
Not so: You get NONE of the benefits of a DVD. If your hard drive dies you've lost the film. And you can't even play it on a DVD player, only on the computer you download to - How big is your screen?
It'll take at least a few hours to download a decent quality film on a good broadband connection. Versus putting the disc into a player...
Score 3-0
Legal: You download through BitTorrent.
Not so: You paid for that bandwidth. And now you have to UPload too. Bye bye high speed internet connection.
Score 4-0
Hmmm.... I can feel the benefits already. Please let me give Warner more money for an inferior product. Please?
So, let me see, would I ever use the service? NO!
Warner "believe movie fans will prefer to pay a reasonable price for a legal downloaded movie". Well that's true. Many would.
Unfortunately for Warner a reasonable price for a download is not the same price as a DVD... maybe £1 for a film, 50p for a show.
It makes me wonder... How much do advertisers pay per viewer for all the advertising slots in a TV show? Or film?
Why can't I pay the same amount and get the program free of all advertising, or pay nothing and get the adverts?
I'd be willing to even have the adverts play, rather than fast-forwarding through them if I got a decent quality show, and could do what I like with it.
Hell, make it an ISO image, I'll burn it, and watch the whole thing, that I might otherwise download without adverts.
Wafty
This appears to be an attempt to give people a legal way to download films direct from the studio... To try and reduce piracy.
(Ignore the fact that pirates typically kill people to steal everything they have, and that what they really mean is 'copyright infringement'. It's not as scary that way round is it?)
Let's look at the reasons this is total bullshit:
Legal: The downloads will be available on the same day as the DVD gets into the shops.
Not so: The free version will probably be available before it even makes it to the cinema.
Score 1-0
Legal: It'll cost the same as a DVD.
Not so: You get NONE of the benefits of a DVD. If your hard drive dies you've lost the film. And you can't even play it on a DVD player, only on the computer you download to - How big is your screen?
It'll take at least a few hours to download a decent quality film on a good broadband connection. Versus putting the disc into a player...
Score 3-0
Legal: You download through BitTorrent.
Not so: You paid for that bandwidth. And now you have to UPload too. Bye bye high speed internet connection.
Score 4-0
Hmmm.... I can feel the benefits already. Please let me give Warner more money for an inferior product. Please?
So, let me see, would I ever use the service? NO!
Warner "believe movie fans will prefer to pay a reasonable price for a legal downloaded movie". Well that's true. Many would.
Unfortunately for Warner a reasonable price for a download is not the same price as a DVD... maybe £1 for a film, 50p for a show.
It makes me wonder... How much do advertisers pay per viewer for all the advertising slots in a TV show? Or film?
Why can't I pay the same amount and get the program free of all advertising, or pay nothing and get the adverts?
I'd be willing to even have the adverts play, rather than fast-forwarding through them if I got a decent quality show, and could do what I like with it.
Hell, make it an ISO image, I'll burn it, and watch the whole thing, that I might otherwise download without adverts.
Wafty
posted by waftycranker at 6:38 PM
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