I guess I should finish this post, since it is a couple weeks old, and omo started a nice little discussion with a relative thought. One of the strong points I found was this:
There is always going to be hubbub about downloading digitized media information, but the legal solutions suck ass! And I’m not very fond of DVD’s especially when they take ages to be released, what the hell is the point of fiber-Earth anyway. I question this because 98% digital media, particularly J-media, is still slow as molasses when done legally [or the quality is a stream, please, it sucks].
Disclaimer: I have no power in the business world, and I’m not a board member at a large media company, so this idea is just blown into the digital wind.
Transportable Information License
In concept, licensing of a product is always for commercial benefit, and never because the information is just so pure, true, and beautiful that the public needs to experience it (never, even in the case of すてき ARIA). It’s all about money, and consumers would be exploited by companies if they could get away with it; price-gouging is REAL. lol @ $50 Blu-Rays
One solution I believe could compensate for corporate greed, but still please consumers like myself is a Transportable Information License or a “take it anywhere” license. With respect to not owning the information, such a license would allow the holder right to keep the given information, end of story. If such a transportable license existed, it would not be illegal to have a digital copy of a title on the computer; getting it there may still be illegal.
The suggestion of a transportable license ensures that a license holder owns the right to experience the information in any form, but the said license would not allow distribution [for commercial benefit], or require the licensee to yield any physical copy of the information (paperless).
Naturally, an item this powerful would require a greater cost, but those recording those nice HD series from the airwaves would have a way to legally own access to what was recorded, and others who have somehow obtained a digital file would no longer be in the legal red, just because they have it.
Would there really be anything for consumers to complain about if they hold the license which allows them to store and experience a title in any digital form?
On another note, the core concept of such a license is the noncommercial nature.
