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Originally posted by The Machine
It's not about control, it's about revenue.
And when the surfer pays a monthly membership fee they get to view the content for a month - isn't that the idea? Where does it say that they should be able to keep the content and watch it indefinitely? They can, of course, if they remain members of the paysite. That's the beauty of it.
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Same thing basically, a blackmail of sorts.
You better renew, otherwise you loose what you downloaded. Whats on your harddrive.
I agree with it in principle, especially for chargebackers and trials.
But for me, I know it'll totally wipe out conversions. The customers will decide it's much better to pay for something where you get a product you can keep.
Where it says they should be able to view the content forever? Copyright law and Fair Use more or less says that.
It doesnt give them any RIGHT to do so though. So DRM is perfectly ok in theory, but really, what does the customer gain?
Those who think the surfer will signup again when he notices he can't view his movies are naive I think. He'll just never signup to a paysite again.
Why would he not go with your no DRM competitor? The only ones who will benefit from this is CCBill and Microsoft I think.
It's the surfers money in the beginning after all. Unfortunately the having a "Good Product" part has been completely missed by lots of paysites...