Subj : game consoles
To   : Arelor
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Dec 19 2025 08:20:30

  Re: game consoles
  By: Arelor to Nightfox on Fri Dec 19 2025 06:08 am

 Ar> My father used to be on Amazon Prime, but anything mediocre or better was
 Ar> behind a secondary paywall. That was kind of bullshit: you are paying a
 Ar> subscription already, for the privilege of spending even more money on
 Ar> their platform. At that point I don t care if the movies are DRM-free or
 Ar> not, the whole idea is very WTF.

Yeah, I think that's weird too.  I tend to not use subscription services much myself either.

 Ar> The movie industry is very paranoid regarding their movies so I don t know
 Ar> of any digital movie or video distributor that is not trying to DRM
 Ar> everything.

They tend to like having copy-protection.  I think they have agreements of some kind that they can enforce so that companies that release movies on physical media will add copy protection to their media, as well as agreements with hardware producers to support that copy protection.

 Ar> Even Youtube tries very hard for videos not to be
 Ar> downloadable. The always fail hard, but the fact they are trying is very
 Ar> telling.

I don't recall if I've seen any download links directly on YouTube, but in the past, I've used 3rd-party software to download videos from YouTube and haven't had a problem with those.

Nightfox

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