Originally Posted by DJ The Kid

Here is, yet again, another perfect example of the dinosaur Hollywood studios screwing their *potential* customers and fans of their films.




The point of this obviously, is to try corralling people to buy the DVDs rather than rent them off the bat. And the studios will make more money. But this is backwards thinking. Most people don't want to purchase and own a DVD. How many times are the going to watch it before they sell it off, give it away or it starts collecting dust? People want to rent a movie and watch it once, and if they are big fan they may end up purchasing the movie for their collection, or renting it again.

Essentially, these studios are shooting themselves in the foot. How? The 56-day period of "retail only" availability is probably when people start looking for it on file-sharing and torrent sites to pirate. I am willing to bet, if it were available immediately for retail AND rental, we could see some drop in illegal download attempts.


Thoughts?