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[lafinjack]

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[pacotelic]

Sailin' into the bay, I see.

[theomni]

Ignoring all the legal issues, they should really keep in mind that they are competing with free. And when the free product is the superior product (actually available, easier to get, no menus/trailers/ads to navigate to get to the actual movie on a dvd, ability to easily move from one device to another, no arbitrary limits on how often you can move the media) that is going to cause issues across your entire industry, I don't care how many of your customers you try to harass or fine into oblivion.

[phrenolepsy]

All of this. I'm sick of buying media that's more trouble than it's worth.

[lafinjack]

Yep, which is why Steam has been so successful, it's actually worth it to spend your money and avoid a lot of the normal paid pitfalls.

[lafinjack]

We're WILLING to pay a premium price for premium (i.e. outside Netflix/Hulu) content. That's what the third panel is about.

[telemann]

Seriously, I've dropped Netflix after a month of having HBOGo. There's no competition honestly.

[cscottd]

I ran into something similar yesterday, while trying to purchase a song. After spending almost an hour having no luck trying to buy it (every site I tried either required a full album purchase or the song wasn't available at all), I finally just gave up and downloaded it "by other means" (which took only a few minutes).

I'm happy to give them my money, but not if they're going to make it so difficult/impossible for me to buy a song, or try to force me to spend ten times as much to buy songs I don't want.

[xforge]

Probably made that way by request of "the artist" (read: the publisher or the publicity people).

[uberreiniger]

Game of the Entertainment Industry in An Era of Evolving Technologies: You win or you die.