James Moore tweeted that several of his co-workers had joined the iPad nation. I asked him how they were going to feel when they found out he wouldn’t let them rip DVDs they own to watch on their iPad. His response?
Buy DVDs & bluerays (sic) that offer a digital copy or use iTunes. If u don’t like that, don’t buy an iPac. Choices are all around!
What a snide son-of-a-b… Ahem. Let’s be clear: this is a non-solution. I have $6000 in DVDs already, many of which were released before the digital download revolution. What can I do about those? James is silent on his solution there. Why can’t I watch content I own? Well, I should clearly use the state-sponsored Apple solution.
What an embarrassing barrel of nonsense! It wasn’t even worth responding that the technology is called “Blu-ray” not “blueray”, but to be told that I flat-out shouldn’t buy a device because of a digital lock? Preposterous. You should be embarrassed, Mr. Minister.
Well he’s given you a perfectly good solution already “don’t buy an iPad” if you wanted to watch DVD’s on a tablet wait for one of the numerous iPad clones such as the NVIDIA Tegra. which will have vastly more performance (dual core baby!), cost a fraction of the price and most importantly wont be lock up so tight that there little more than a touch screen tech demo, aimed at people more concerned with the brand than the functionality.
I think that’s the sound of you missing the point, Rob. You won’t be able to watch it on any tablet as you’re not allowed to break a digital lock to rip the file.
Nice job on the ad placement though, I’m sure the Tegra will me a great product when it comes out.
It seems quite common from the pro-c32/pro-DRM crowd to say “well then just dont buy the movie” while completely ignoring the people that have ALREADY bought DVDs or CDs years before
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