91% of Americans Want the Ability to Copy DVDs Onto Their PCs, Study Finds
This should come as no surprise to those who have witnessed the gradual digitalization (moving away from physical products and towards computer files) of music, songs and albums. Just as many music fans now use their computers as their primary sound systems, 69-percent of those surveyed attested to watching DVDs on their computers. Is it any surprise, then, that they'd want the ability to save the disc on their video player of choice? It shouldn't be, particularly when you consider that nearly 40-percent of the respondents claimed to have, at some point, repurchased a DVD due to loss or damage.
For the most part, folks in the "biz" aren't too fond of this trend, since importing media onto a computer renders computer files that are more easily pirated than are physical discs. That being said, with the economy in such dire straits, and folks' once disposable income becoming increasingly indispensable, DVD sales have suffered (55-percent are purchasing fewer DVDs than they were last year). That being said, 40-percent of the respondents said that the ability to import DVDs onto their computers would stimulate their purchasing of the discs.
Much like everyone else, the movie folks have found themselves in a pickle, it seems to us. With sales suffering, this simple decision to remove or change the encryption from DVDs could really boost business at a time when it's sorely needed. It could also, months down the road, lead to movie piracy on a large scale, ultimately nullifying any short-term benefit the policy might have had. And then, there's not to mention the fact that this rock of a situation has a hard place, too. [From: National Consumers League]
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Master Shake said 11:30AM on 4-06-2009
Software is readily available to copy DVD's onto any computer hard drive right now - for FREE. The software is available online as freeware. As usual, corporations are completely out of the loop when it comes to technology that defeats their silly protectionist schemes.
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jcutner said 11:51AM on 4-06-2009
isn't this why dvd's are coming with digital copies now...?
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chizenguy5 said 12:36PM on 4-06-2009
The use of those digital copies is very sketchy. My aunt bought me The Dark Knight Blu-Ray for my B-Day, and the digital copy was availbale, but at the cost of like 5 more bucks. I already had an HD copy of the movie, but point given. And on my old Hitman DVD, I was only allowed to copy the digital movie once. This was horrible, because I change laptops once a year, due to new tech and them dying, and when I copied it over the new computer, it wouldn't let me open it and I couldn't redownload it. To solve this simply let us have a fully drm free copy, and include an HD copy with the blu-ray discs.
harry said 10:00AM on 4-21-2009
MAKE MY OWN COPYS....DVD CLONER.
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