http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/ Engadget Comments for DECE's 'digital locker' take-anywhere DRM dubbed UltraViolet, launches later this year http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/Jul 20th 2010 1:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/Jul 20th 2010 1:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/Jul 20th 2010 3:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/Jul 20th 2010 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/Jul 20th 2010 1:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/Jul 20th 2010 2:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/
I hate the inconvenience that DRM has traditionally imposed. I understand the need for it though. Without any form of DRM piracy will continue to be rampant. While DRM prevents us using our content the way we want, it'll keep getting circumvented.]]>Jul 20th 2010 4:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/World is not perfect place. But it's normal for human nature to share. So we should share but we shouldn't make profit from it.]]>Jul 20th 2010 4:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/Jul 20th 2010 6:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/
i'll let the rich millionaires buy dvds, ebooks, netflix accounts etc. but i aint gonna stop consuming. bit torrent gets me everything i want in HD format in minutes. i will never buy a product with DRM on it, because it is bullshit. what sense does it make to punish paying customers when pirates like myself can get it free with freedom?]]>Jul 20th 2010 8:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/Jul 20th 2010 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/
People who get their primary content via pirating are still a very large minority. Most of the non-tech (and even techie) people I talk to are now scared to even think about downloading something without paying for it.

Even otherwise, most people use iTunes, and go see movies, as well as buy them to watch at home.

As the market becomes freer and the standard of living rises in developing countries, the rate of piracy will go down there too.

This is a non-issue. ]]>Jul 20th 2010 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/
ugh, meant "very small."]]>Jul 20th 2010 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/Jul 20th 2010 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/
Owners rights should mean the people that own the COPIES, not the people that own the original copyrights. This is not "owner" rights, this is PUBLISHER rights. This is all about expanding the rights of publishers at the expense of individual property rights.

It's high time that we started turning around the bad rhetoric and the big lie.

Authors are not owners. Anyone that buys a copy is the owners.]]>Jul 23rd 2010 8:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/Jul 20th 2010 2:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/Huh? Wait? Wha?]]>Jul 20th 2010 2:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/
Seemingly random, totally off-topic comment + fanboy-ish sentiments = epic fail!]]>Jul 20th 2010 4:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/Jul 20th 2010 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/
I freaking hate SecuROM. There are games I payed good money for that I don't hardly play simply because I don't want to have to go get the disc. I'm lazy, I know, but my excuse is that I have a laptop that isn't always near my discs :P.]]>Jul 20th 2010 2:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/Jul 20th 2010 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/Jul 20th 2010 2:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/Jul 20th 2010 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/Jul 20th 2010 3:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/
u want to chop your sack off cuz of drm?]]>Jul 20th 2010 4:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/
If I end up with a system which allows me to buy once, use on any device I choose I'll be happy. Particularly if it 'just works'.]]>Jul 20th 2010 4:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/
When has DRM ever "just worked?"]]>Jul 20th 2010 4:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/Why should I have to be online to use something I already bought? What if I own a player that doesn't support this DRM scheme? Then am I SOL? I will stick with buying DVDs and ripping them for my music players, thank you.

@Teerim
In short, No.]]>Jul 20th 2010 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/It hasn't... yet. It may never, but one day it might.

@maxxorz
DRM does not conceptually require you to be online. The whole point of DECE is that you can re-download your content in a format that your device DOES support (ie. you dont need to transcode, they will do it for you, but with appropriate watermarks or rights management enforced). If ripping DVDs works for you then keep doing it. Not everyone likes ripping and converting their media though. Does your mum rip her own DVDs too?]]>Jul 20th 2010 7:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/Jul 20th 2010 7:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/Jul 20th 2010 4:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/Jul 20th 2010 5:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/Jul 20th 2010 6:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/
First off, it is cloud-based, so does that mean that now we need EVERY device we own to be internet-based? It's one thing to have access to the internets from your desktop and laptop, but now your MP3-player, TV, phone and everything else needs to access the cloud?

What happens if we lose internet connection? On a plane? In the woods? Or simply technical problems? So we lose internet, but apparently the perfectly good DVD player we have now won't work either?

Also being a new standard, that means that probably nothing out there right now is compatible. So every device that we would like to watch some crappy movie on has to either be updated or we have to buy a new one?

Last but not least is the fact that this is not the ONLY standard, so of course there are going to still be issues if I buy a Disney movie on DVD it won't be compatible with this UV standard.

Either way, I fully expect for this standard-to-rule-all-standards to eventually get hacked which will then get these companies to scramble and come up with another non-compatible format.]]>Jul 20th 2010 6:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/Jul 20th 2010 8:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/
Check out cartris blog, awesome anti drm activist/Mac bios god:

Cartri.net/blog]]>Jul 20th 2010 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/Jul 20th 2010 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/
The problem with DRM in the past was it tried to lock you into either one or a couple machines per purchase. If I'm understanding this correctly, this system allows you to purchase a movie once and watch it on any device. Sure there's DRM, in that you have to have an account and log in, but other than that you're free to watch it on as many devices as many times as you want.

The world is going to shift to a could based, streaming system anyways. This model sounds pretty fair.

"buy a piece of content once in physical or digital format, and gain access across all formats and devices via a cloud based account"

IF I'm getting this right, you buy a blu-ray. Maybe that blu-ray has a code, I don't know. So you type this code into your account and the system now knows you purchased the movie. You can now watch it from the cloud anywhere you'd like, on any device that supports it. You also have your blu-ray for the best possible (as of now) picture and audio at home. This is 1000000000x better than that piece of shit digital copy they do now. Maybe this isn't exactly how it works, but it's the impression I got.

]]>Jul 20th 2010 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/How is having to download something everytime you want to watch it a "better alternative". Yeah. The Digital Copy the give you sucks too. Best option. Rip the movie yourself, and encode it in a format you can watch on a personal media player. Problem solved.]]>Jul 20th 2010 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/
Very true, which is one of the reasons I love optical media above all else. But I know eventually everything will go to streaming/downloading so to me, this sounds like a good option]]>Jul 20th 2010 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/Jul 21st 2010 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/Jul 26th 2010 5:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/20/deces-digital-locker-take-anywhere-drm-dubbed-ultraviolet/Jul 28th 2010 2:45PM