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Originally Posted by rankscom
Two comments...
1. Bandwidth and encoding is to the point where streaming is almost a "must" for any pay-site. Streaming if done well, can add a lot of value to their site.
2. The point of downloads is to offer "higher" quality videos than what reliable streaming can provide. That's it's primary benefit. The other benefit is the ability to play it back from any media/computer at any later date, blow it up full screen, with no internet connection or membership required.
Both have it's positives and slightly different purpose. Not providing a solid method of delivering both can be taken as a negative to some. Protecting your content (like Robbie has chosen) is perfectly valid. But you can't knock review sites for pointing out the "lack" of options that most users normally expect when shelling out the plastic.
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Agreed, but like I stated in my post above....if we offered videos that could be downloaded and played on your computer forever, and could even be transferred to a few other devices you own (laptop, ipod, iphone, etc), but there was a limit to how many times you could copy it....you would call that
DRM and put it in big red letters on the review.
When I buy a song from Itunes for 99 cents....it's mine to keep forever, but whenever I copy it to another device, it prompts me for my user/pass again and lets me know how many more times I can copy it before I have to buy it again (usually 5 times)
This is more than fair, but if I did it with a porn site you would lower my score and put DRM in big red letters on my review.