At CinemaCon this year, the Motion Picture Association Chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin said the organization is going to work with Congress to establish and enforce a site-blocking legislation in the United States.
The annoying thing is that legally, at least where I live, selling this stuff is permitted, but any serious attempt to do so gets shut down by lawsuits because you can obviously upload endless copies of second hand media to sell.
Licenses can be sold, though, and EULA terms forbidding that are worthless, but good luck selling games from your GoG/iTunes inventory. One-on-one you can honour the deal, and physical disks with DRM also work to properly sell media, but DRM free files are impossible to sell on any serious scale.
This isn’t even a copyright problem necessarily, it’s the result of information, like the composition of electrons in flash storage that can be copied exactly in seconds, having value. I want my games/music/videos DRM free, mostly because I want to play them on Linux to be honest, but I also can’t think of any way a company can stay afloat selling DRM-free media if people with bad intentions are given the freedom I want.
Of course, this is a piracy community, so business viability is not much of a priority to most here, but we need some of these companies to survive, or there won’t be anything to pirate.
The annoying thing is that legally, at least where I live, selling this stuff is permitted, but any serious attempt to do so gets shut down by lawsuits because you can obviously upload endless copies of second hand media to sell.
Licenses can be sold, though, and EULA terms forbidding that are worthless, but good luck selling games from your GoG/iTunes inventory. One-on-one you can honour the deal, and physical disks with DRM also work to properly sell media, but DRM free files are impossible to sell on any serious scale.
This isn’t even a copyright problem necessarily, it’s the result of information, like the composition of electrons in flash storage that can be copied exactly in seconds, having value. I want my games/music/videos DRM free, mostly because I want to play them on Linux to be honest, but I also can’t think of any way a company can stay afloat selling DRM-free media if people with bad intentions are given the freedom I want.
Of course, this is a piracy community, so business viability is not much of a priority to most here, but we need some of these companies to survive, or there won’t be anything to pirate.