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In case you needed another reason to pirate movies, Microsoft is introducing a new hardware-based DRM scheme called PlayReady to lock down 4k content on Windows PCs. The user-restricting tool will only be available on Windows 10, ensuring users orphaned on earlier versions of the OS will need to upgrade to view the high-definition format.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2908089/all-about-playready-30-microsofts-secret-plan-to-lock-down-4k-movies-to-your-pc.html
From the article:
“Dad?! What’s going on? Why do we have to watch this movie in crappy standard-def?” The name of the movie might as well be Digital Rights Management: The New Nightmare. It stars Microsoft, who is working with chip vendors Intel, AMD, Nvidia, and Qualcomm to protect Hollywood’s movies from piracy as they travel through your PC. The technology it’s promoting is called PlayReady 3.0.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Sunday April 26 2015, @11:09AM
Clueless Calvin, and about 280 million Americans will eat this shit, and tell us all how good it is.
If Clueless and his cousins would just tell Microsoft and Hollywood to pack it up their orifices, the world would be a much better place. Maybe I need to watch that stupid movie again - Wag the Dog.
(Score: 2) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Sunday April 26 2015, @07:23PM
If the story telling is good enough? I'll watch SD - sometimes even 240.
If I want a f*cking light show, I'll go see the Floyd... ;-)
You're betting on the pantomime horse...
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Sunday April 26 2015, @09:03PM
Hear, hear!
If you don't like the delivery method, don't consume the content. Besides, is it so important for you to watch the latest Hollywood blockbuster that you need to break the law? It really isn't. "Oh, but it's a form of protest against DRM" They don't give a shit. They just want money.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2015, @12:01AM
> They don't give a shit. They just want money.
Sounds like you've just rationalized piracy as the most effective form of protest.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2015, @08:01AM
Not necessarily. Not buying something doesn't harm someone; it just means they don't gain. Therefore, you could also refrain from downloading any of it at all and it would be the same. And between giving them money and infringing upon copyrights, I'd rather people do the latter.
Also, law != morality, so the GP just saying something about breaking the law means nothing.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by LoRdTAW on Monday April 27 2015, @11:58AM
I'd say the most rational form is to simply walk away from their content. Illegally viewing the content shows them that you still NEED it. They see that demand and they know they can capitalize on it. Telling them to piss off and shove their DRM laden content up the wazoo is much more effective. I liken it to a junkie that robs a drug dealer. That drug dealer is just going to arm themself and prevent a future attack. A game of cat and mouse ensues and you have a war.