Thank you for writing this. Ease of access DOES matter when it comes to combatting piracy (as the music industry learned once Steve Jobs convinced them to sign on to iTunes). It's too bad the film industry has failed to take note of this.
Thank you for writing this. Ease of access DOES matter when it comes to combatting piracy (as the music industry learned once Steve Jobs convinced them to sign on to iTunes). It's too bad the film industry has failed to take note of this.
Just yesterday I was watching a show in Disney+. First episode played fine, but then the second threw a strange error about content being unavailable on the first try, just froze up completely on the second and, on the third, told me my HDMI cable was incompatible with HDCP and that I'd need a new one if I wanted to keep watching. A few force-closes later and I managed to watch two more episodes. Pretty sure I could have pirated all three episodes in the time it took to get one to play.
When that kind of stuff happens it makes me think of those anti-piracy ads where they said that, by pirating content you are bankrupting all the hard-working set builders, security guards and hundreds of regular folk who work in the industry. So, like, now the executives hold blue-collar workers hostage and demand that we pay a monthly fee or they'll be fired. If the user experience were, you know, good and nominally user-focused I would feel differently.
Thank you for writing this. Ease of access DOES matter when it comes to combatting piracy (as the music industry learned once Steve Jobs convinced them to sign on to iTunes). It's too bad the film industry has failed to take note of this.
Just yesterday I was watching a show in Disney+. First episode played fine, but then the second threw a strange error about content being unavailable on the first try, just froze up completely on the second and, on the third, told me my HDMI cable was incompatible with HDCP and that I'd need a new one if I wanted to keep watching. A few force-closes later and I managed to watch two more episodes. Pretty sure I could have pirated all three episodes in the time it took to get one to play.
When that kind of stuff happens it makes me think of those anti-piracy ads where they said that, by pirating content you are bankrupting all the hard-working set builders, security guards and hundreds of regular folk who work in the industry. So, like, now the executives hold blue-collar workers hostage and demand that we pay a monthly fee or they'll be fired. If the user experience were, you know, good and nominally user-focused I would feel differently.