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Originally Posted by AaronM
Who gives a shit if the members don't like it? Fuck em. They are the ones stealing it in the first place. All we are doing by not protecting our content is allowing them to steal it easier. Why should I give two shits what they want beyond providing a quality product that gets them off?
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shap is in no way saying you should not protect your content he is just pointing out that the review site business model is counter productive to giving you a good review when you do so.
Protect your content all you want, just don't cry about when it cause you to get a lower score on the review sites.
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If I have a home loan, car loan, and bank account that I regularly make deposits into, does that mean I should be allowed to rob the bank? I think not.
Better yet....I'm going to go buy a new car, make one monthly payment on it, then stop my payments and keep the car. Yeah, that sounds reasonable. Oh wait, banks use repo companies who will come take their car back. How dare they protect themselves like that. People should stop buying cars.
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except copyright act that gives you your exclusive right to distribute your content, says that right is superceed by something called fair use. And the courts have recognized rights like backup/recover/timeshifting/format shifting as those fair use rights.
Streaming only solutions prevent some of those fair use right (backup/recovery)
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Not like people would stop buying if all sites had protected content on it.
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herding cats
your assuming that all paysites would jump on board,
your assuming that no one will rip dvd and put them up on torrent sites
Robbies "super special" streaming technology has one serious flaw in the spec, the digital stream is completely decoded at the video card level.
All that is necessary to copy the stream is to virtualize the video card (like vm ware does for network cards) and treat the showing as a display on second monitor to get a crystal clear copy of the video, clear of any encryption.
The only reason it has not happened yet, is because software coders (like me) realize that you would running a race against streaming software companies.
They would have to implement some sort of download and disable function to that virtualized video card. Or try and sue you into oblivion (open source would solve this probelm since there would be no one to sue). The market is not big enough to justify the cost of competing in that space, however if everyone did it, it would be.
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When I pay for a movie ticket, will they let me bring a video camera into the theater and tape the movie? No. Do people still go to the theaters to watch movies? Yes. There will always be those who sneak in to the theater too. You can't stop all theft but you should still try.
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there is a law against that act in many countries, however in the countries where there is no such laws all they can do is ask you to leave
since there is no law against review sites giving you bad review because you are "protecting your content" all you can do is live with it.
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The last I checked, the review sites get paid by the sales they send to our sites.
I fully understand what you are saying, I simply don't care if the surfers like it or not. Go steal somebody else's content, mine will remain protected. Anybody who is not doing the same is clearly more focused on short term income rather than caring about content theft, protecting content, and long term income.
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there are tons of way to make up the revenue short falls then applying draconion copyleft protections.
process monitization
branding bugs
live interaction
hell robbies own quotes prove his members not caring about the right to download and wanting to be part of the family (live interaction) proves it. Just becuase their are people who will try other alternative solutions to your proposed solution does mean they are not thinking about the future.
Robbie says he his protecting his content but what he is really doing is creating a site that focus on live interaction at the expense of the traditional content distribution methodology.
American Idol (and all voting based reality shows) did the same thing, by intergrating a live interactive component to the show (vote for your favorite artist) that loses all value if you watch it months, days later. They suffer the backlash (reality trash) because of it, but they don't care because the money from live interaction is worth more than fully servicing the needs of all consumers. Negative reviews are your backlash, they live with it so should you,