Paramount's implementation of Ultraviolet wasn't way to painful. At first I thought I was actually going to like it, I was able to log into the website, register my movie and overall it was rather painless. Then they pulled out the Silverlight trap. To Microsofts credit they re-directed me to Novell and their moonlight plugin, however the ( Read more... )

I've seen more people bash Warner Brothers for their digital copy implementation than any other. I decided to check it out ( Read more... )

I still had to use Windows to do anything with it. For the download option it demands I install Silverlight, I don't think I will.

For the record this is what it looks like when I try to watch a Sony movie with a Linux box:


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I wrote Sony a support email over their implementation of Ultra Violet Digital Copy. It's mostly self explanitory, this is what I emailed them, I hope they respond.

I got my daughter the full blown expensive 3D version of the Smurfs for Christmas, and I immediately attempted to claim the Ultra Violet Digital copy since the one I claimed from ( Read more... )

I usually hate DRM with a passion, and I'm not fully on-board with it. Sure my Kindle is full of DRM laden books, which I'm not particularly happy about. When I broke my last Kindle's screen, backed the files up to my PC and restored them to the new Kindle I found out even my public domain books from Amazon were full of DRM. Of course Amazon ( Read more... )