Comments on: DVDs Don’t Last – Buying Digital Rights Instead of Plastic http://stephensnexus.com/2007/03/21/dvds-dont-last-buying-digital-rights-instead-of-plastic/ Dave Stephens on technology and business trends Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:20:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: abetteryou http://stephensnexus.com/2007/03/21/dvds-dont-last-buying-digital-rights-instead-of-plastic/#comment-5030 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:44:07 +0000 http://procurement.wordpress.com/2007/03/21/dvds-dont-last-buying-digital-rights-instead-of-plastic/#comment-5030 hi, i found a product that lets your transfer your dvds to your ipod. then if your dvd breaks or scratches you still have a clean copy. just hop over to my blog and check it out if you like.

]]> By: Dave Stephens http://stephensnexus.com/2007/03/21/dvds-dont-last-buying-digital-rights-instead-of-plastic/#comment-5029 Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:51:48 +0000 http://procurement.wordpress.com/2007/03/21/dvds-dont-last-buying-digital-rights-instead-of-plastic/#comment-5029 Hi, Dave,

Saw your latest blog post on digital rights and felt compelled to respond
(but am too lazy to register to post a comment on your blog).

The problem with so-called digital rights is that every current
implementation of the technology is limited by the oxymoron of digital
rights management. I can play a DVD in any of the PCs, Macs, and DVD
players I have scattered around the house. I can also rip it to any storage
device of my choice, and even download it to my iPod… if I really wanted
to see Costner on a 2-inch screen… :-(. If I’m compelled to ruin an
evening with friends, I can even take my DVD over to their house to watch it
on the device of their choice. If I ever get a vehicle so-equipped, I could
even play it in my car and drive up my insurance rates. And so on.

Today, DRM prevents nearly all of those use-case scenarios. Hollywood’s got
it all wrong, much in the same way that the RIAA is steadily killing the
music industry with DRM. So far, digital rights just suck. I’m still
buying CDs and DVDs, and will continue to do so until DRM has a wooden stake
driven through it’s undead heart.

None of that prevents me from lusting after the Apple TV device.

Congrats on getting your first-round funding, by the way. Glad to see the
wheels lifting off the tarmac for Coupa.

Regards,
Steven

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