Re: Sony DRM: Download twice, that's it. No more.

On Sep 25, 1:42 pm, NiGHTS <nightsintodreamsYOHOL...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
The alMIGHTY N wrote:
On Sep 24, 12:59 pm, NiGHTS
<nightsintodreamsYOHOL...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The alMIGHTY N wrote:
On Sep 23, 3:06 am, Jordan <lu...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sep 22, 2:58 pm, Jonah Falcon <jonahny...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080921-playstation-3-video-drm...
Hmm... so I can buy, say, Speed Racer from Sony for $15.00 and
relinquish all control over how the media is used or I can buy the DVD
for $16.00 and do whatever I want with it... Man, tough choice.
(Or I could be a pirate and rent the DVD for $1 and do whatever I want
with it.)
- Jordan
It's a ridiculous model. The bottom line is that this is seriously
flawed and if word got out to consumers about this "purchases" from
the store would drop faster than Clay Aiken's pants in a men's
bathroom stall.
Or they could just learn to take care of their data, it's not fucking
difficult or anything. People complaining about the inability to
transfer to other storage may have a point, but the number of downloads?
That's akin to saying "I bought a dvd from a store, then lost it, and
the store refused to give me another one. Sons of bitches!".

It's not akin to saying that at all. People buy online downloads so
they don't have to worry about losing their content and rightfully
should assume that if something happens to their machine they should
be able to download the content again.

Again, the iTunes store (arguably the most successful setup of its type)
doesn't allow for this at all. And just to turn this on the always
impartial guy who started this thread in the first place, was Jonah
spitting venom on here when he found MSN Music closed down their DRM
servers making it impossible for users of that service to reauthorise
their content should they need? Of course he didn't.

Even worse is the situation where the person purchases a newer model
and has to go through the hassle of calling customer service to
transfer the content.

It's a flawed model in every way. I suppose it's wrong to be too upset
with Sony since it's the content providers who are imposing this but
Sony is the one who paraded their willingness to do this around in
order to gain the support of so many movie studios in the first place.

Again, no one should have expected Sony to reinvent the wheel here.

At the very least, they should make it very clear to the consumer up
front that they're not actually buying anything. The differentiation
between a rental and a purchase is misleading.

So next time I buy a copy of MS Office that can only be activated on one
computer this should be classed as a rental?

Is this example supposed to be relevant to the discussion in some way?

If I purchase Microsoft Office, install it, activate it, then
uninstall it, I can reinstall it and reactivate it as many times as I
want to.

If I purchase Microsoft Office, install it, activate it, then my PC
crashes and I have to reinstall everything, I can reinstall and
reactivate the software. I can do this as many times as my computer
crashes. The only hitch here is if I change any hardware components
upon reinstall but then again I can go through phone activation in
that case - in the case of the PS3 it doesn't matter if I haven't put
in a new hard drive - you get the 1 download (and possibly a courtesy
second download) and that's it.

I am not limited in the amount of time I can use Microsoft Office once
I've activated it.

I don't expect someone to be able to have a movie download on several
Playstation 3s at once. I can understand if they prevent you from
sharing the movie across several systems. I simply think that if they
claim that you're purchasing versus renting, you should be able to
redownload it to the same system as many times as you need to.

I've got to wonder now whether the same limitations are imposed on
Xbox Live content.

Themes/pics and XBLA games (although that may change when the less
successful games disappear from the service) don't have this
restriction. As for the paid videos, the selection we get over here
isn't anything to brag about so I haven't tried it, but I'd imagine
they're more restrictive.

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