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by supabeast! on Monday November 11, @09:29AM (#4642343)
(User #84658 Info / http://www.supabeast.org/ / Last Journal: Thursday October 03, @04:20PM)
For $17.99 - $24.99 I can get most of these movies on DVD. The price of a DVD includes All the extra "features" and "enhancements" movie companies put on the disc are now gone, which should wipe out a good chunk of the cost right there. Take out another big chunk for the sound and video quality being generally crappy (A VHS rental tape would look/sound better.). This leaves me with a shitty copy of a movie that I could have rented for the same price.

Why not just charge a little more, sell a nice DiVX rip of the DVD, so that I can buy the movie, download it, burn it to a CD, and watch it all I want? The movie companies would make more money in the long run, because they no longer have to package and (physically.) distribute the movie. Of course, I might just serve the video up on Kaazaa, a private FTP, or an IRC bot, but someone else was already doing that when the movie was in the theatre!

I think it is nice that the movie companies are doing this, but they need to loosen up a little. Exisiting distribution paradigms are dying fast, the time has come to cut losses and just give consumers what the consumers are already getting for FREE, instead of selling a crappy version.