Comments on: Bandai’s DVD/UMD deal http://chosaq.net/archives/2005/04/bandais-dvdumd-deal.html A research blog tracking copyright related policy & technology developments in Japan. By Andreas Bovens. Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:59:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: chosaq » UMD’s downfall http://chosaq.net/archives/2005/04/bandais-dvdumd-deal.html/comment-page-1#comment-314 chosaq » UMD’s downfall Tue, 11 Apr 2006 05:14:35 +0000 http://chosaq.net/archives/2005/04/bandais-dvdumd-deal.html#comment-314 [...] Almost a year ago, I briefly mentioned Bandai’s plans to start offering DVD+UMD packs and pointed out that this “deal” is a fine illustration of what DRM is all about: it prevents content portability, thus forcing you to buy the same stuff over and over again. Consumers have understood this on time (or maybe nobody was really interested in watching movies on-the-go), and voted with their wallet: UMD movie sales are absolutely down, up to the point where the big movie production houses have announced (or are about to do so) that they’ll stop doing UMD releases, but stick to DVDs instead. [...] [...] Almost a year ago, I briefly mentioned Bandai’s plans to start offering DVD+UMD packs and pointed out that this “deal” is a fine illustration of what DRM is all about: it prevents content portability, thus forcing you to buy the same stuff over and over again. Consumers have understood this on time (or maybe nobody was really interested in watching movies on-the-go), and voted with their wallet: UMD movie sales are absolutely down, up to the point where the big movie production houses have announced (or are about to do so) that they’ll stop doing UMD releases, but stick to DVDs instead. [...]

]]> By: Karl-Friedrich Lenz http://chosaq.net/archives/2005/04/bandais-dvdumd-deal.html/comment-page-1#comment-315 Karl-Friedrich Lenz Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:46:36 +0000 http://chosaq.net/archives/2005/04/bandais-dvdumd-deal.html#comment-315 You probably would not pay for such a package. And Cory Doctorow most certainly would not pay for anything carrying any DRM, package or not. On the other hand, other consumers might, and the copyright holder might make an extra profit from those sales. That depends on whether more people would buy the content twice than those who would boycott the whole thing. Not everybody knows what DRM is, and not everybody thinks this kind of question through. You probably would not pay for such a package. And Cory Doctorow most certainly would not pay for anything carrying any DRM, package or not.

On the other hand, other consumers might, and the copyright holder might make an extra profit from those sales.

That depends on whether more people would buy the content twice than those who would boycott the whole thing.

Not everybody knows what DRM is, and not everybody thinks this kind of question through.

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