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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2015, @12:30PM
The quote from the kid should be
Dad?! What’s going on? Why do we have to watch this shitty American movie?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2015, @12:48PM
Absolutely.
Been watching non-American movies lately, and I absolutely have to agree. Language might be a problem for some, but there are lots of people providing free subtitles in many languages.
Movies are wonderful outside America. Hollywood rips off foreign movies without even mentioning the original they stole from, and then calls its rips "intellectual property". Whats so intellectual about stealing?
(Score: 1) by redneckmother on Sunday April 26 2015, @04:00PM
"There is nothing new under the Sun."
Mas cerveza por favor.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2015, @08:23PM
There is nothing new under the Sun
Yes there is. Its called "Creativity".
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2015, @02:02AM
> Hollywood rips off foreign movies without even mentioning the original they stole from,
However, 99 times out of 100 they paid for the rights to the story.
Since most people who see the remake will have zero interest in watching the now-redundant-to-them premake, there really isn't much lost.
And, BTW, I'm confident I've seen more non-US movies than you have. Probably over a thousand asian films alone. I'm just not worked up about it. The fact that hollywood productions outsell domestic films in nearly all countries without domestic quotas (like mainland China and South Korea) means that a very large proportion of people actually do like hollywood films, schlocky or not.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2015, @04:23PM
There's more "good" content from America and the world than you could possibly watch.