[...] is why content providers love more DRM; they are better able to attempt to control user behavior and restrict what people think of as legitimate transactions. That little piece of paper with the [...]

[...] a way to sell digital versions of movies direct to customers, without having to use iTunes. The aim of the program is “digital portability”, which they believe will convince customers to buy instead of [...]

Very un-happy with WB…..

It appears that Flixster is giving some people iTunes codes for movie copies if they complain. See the message here: https://discussions.apple.com/message/16730283#16730283

On a not-at-all-unrelated note, I recently bought a PSP, immediately jailbroke it, and while I have purchased a physical disc copy of every game I own on it, I run them all from a memory card instead of from disc.

@Jason: I used to buy a lot of DVD’s, and now I buy almost none. I think “boycott” is too strong a word, as, while I have a strong political objection to DRM, my recent choice not to buy movies is entirely a practical one. DVD is an obsolescent format, Blu-Ray is still a niche, and there is no digital format that allows a convenient way to keep all my movies in the same collection and watch them across different devices, programs, and operating systems. Meantime, I’m still subscribed to Netflix streaming (or, more accurately, my girlfriend is), but we dropped the DVD service when the price shot up.

I still buy DVD’s now and again; the new Laurel and Hardy set is absolutely fantastic. Part of that, of course, is that Laurel and Hardy wouldn’t look significantly better in HD. Neither would, say, 1970′s Doctor Who, or most any TV show made prior to about 2006. So I still buy DVD’s now and again — just not at anything like the rate I was a few years ago.