{"id":197904,"date":"2008-01-03T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/03\/wal-mart-screws-the-pooch-on-digital-downloads\/"},"modified":"2008-01-03T06:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-03T11:02:00","slug":"wal-mart-screws-the-pooch-on-digital-downloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/03\/wal-mart-screws-the-pooch-on-digital-downloads\/","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart Screws the Pooch on Digital Downloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20071228-wal-marts-online-movie-failure-drm-high-prices-to-blame.html\">after less than a year, Wal-Mart is abandoning its digital download service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Its basic features were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Just as (if not more) expensive as a DVD.<\/li>\n<li>A draconian DRM regime which forced you to watch it on your computer and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">only<\/span> that computer.<\/li>\n<li>It only ran on Windows Machines.<\/li>\n<li>No High Def.<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li> Which doesn&#8217;t mean much to me, but for the technophile early adoptors, it does.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>The DRM scheme allowed the studios to revoke <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">your<\/span> rights to the movies that <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">you<\/span> downloaded with no recourse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To quote ars technica:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The message here is very clear: draconian DRM and unrealistic pricing are turning consumers away from legitimate retail channels and giving them a big incentive to adopt underground file sharing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, after less than a year, Wal-Mart is abandoning its digital download service. Its basic features were: Just as (if not more) expensive as a DVD. A draconian DRM regime which forced you to watch it on your computer and only that computer. It only ran on Windows Machines. No High Def. Which doesn&#8217;t mean &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1065,1109,1064],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-entertainment","category-ip","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}