Jeff’s Blog

There is an article on Reuters about flaws in Adobes flash video on demand services such as Amazon and Hulu.  The author writes

“The problem exposes online video content to the rampant piracy that plagued the music industry during the Napster era and is undermining efforts by retailers, movie studios and television networks to cash in on a huge Web audience.”

What?  This is an opinion did you ever take a journalism class Mr. Wakabayashi you are supposed to be objective.  You report the facts you don’t regurgitate the lines from the MPAA.  This is no big deal the people who would have pirated movies already were anyone can download Handbreak for free and rip 99% of the DVDs on the market today.  So who is going to pay for software to pirate DVD’s that I can get with a Netflix subscription for $19 a month?  I would guess not very many.  Just so you know Mr. Wakabayashi music piracy today is probably more rampant than it ever was in Napster’s day despite all the RIAA lawsuits.

DRM is fundamentally flawed as it is.  If a movie is encrypted it has to be decrypted to be displayed on the screen at some point.  You are giving the consumer the crypto key to decrypt the file.   The key is just cleverly hidden and or obfuscated.  Given time all DRM is broken.  Adobe will come out with a work around and then it will be game on again for the small companies who are selling the software to record flash movies.  The dance will go on and on as it has for every other DRM technology.  Oh and Mr. Wakabayashi this is my opinion you see this is a blog not a news article.