From Wired. "Dear Hollywood Studios: Let My Video Go"
Access to instant audio and visual files continues to be an issue. With the proliferation of YouTube, we have come to expect video on demand. Many people are willing to pay rental fees to download movies instantly and watch on portable devices, but the restrictions that come with downloads to "prevent piracy" are burdensome for consumers. Who wants to have to go to multiple sites to download material for our different devices? Especially since I like to watch movies on, well, television.
Several of my posts have been about digital files and the best way to distribute them. But it continues to be a huge issue. With copyright laws getting so insane (really, how long does Snow White need to be under copyright? Walt Disney is dead).
Some kind of sane policy needs to be made, preferably informed by people who understand the issues, not just the record companies and the movie companies.
And really, I am all about sticking it to movie studies after reading about the creator of the Cheetah Girls. If these people can't figure out how to make a net profit on the Cheetah Girls, they don't deserve to survive. Downloads or no downloads
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