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Why take it to a store? Fat pipes, or pre-loaded servers. I don't want to wait 12 hours to download 12GB of HD movie, and I don't want a streaming movie to grind to a halt in the middle because some bozo down the street is doing the same thing on the same cable.

Scarily, somebody out there is probably looking at a flash memory device with an encryption key, that you'd take to a store to load up with your rented movie. It's that darn DRM that makes any kind of download attractive to the distribution channels, and makes it annoying to all of us. And the stupid thing is that it's still breakable -- I'd give DVDJon a day to break anything like this.

And don't give me that "Information wants to be free" crap -- information wants to be *valuable*. Unless somebody pays for it, nobody's going to spend $200M to make it.

Black Friday Giveaways (part 18): Neuros OSD + 160GB drive

Nov 24th 2007 12:23AM on Engadget

Want it, take it

Black Friday Giveaways (part 19): Wii + Metroid Prime 3 and more

Nov 24th 2007 12:23AM on Engadget

wheeeeeeeee!

Black Friday Giveaways (part 15): Pioneer HDJ-1000

Nov 23rd 2007 6:54PM on Engadget

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