Disney Close To Unveiling New "DVD Killer" 498
Uncle Rummy writes "The Wall Street Journal reports that Disney is close to releasing a new system that will sell permanent, multi-device access to digital media. The system, dubbed Keychest, is being positioned as an answer to consumer concerns about purchasing digital media that are locked to a small number of devices, and thus as a way to finally shift media sales from an ownership model to an access model. They claim that such a service would reduce the risk of losing access to content as a result of a single vendor going out of business, as purchased content would remain available from other vendors. However, they do not seem to have addressed the question of what happens to customers' access to purchased content if the Keychest service itself is discontinued."
Tomorrow's ./ headline - (Score:5, Funny)
MPAA sues Disney over new "DVD Killer"
Re:Can I avoid this simply by avoiding Disney? (Score:5, Funny)
In order to provide the most choice, freedom, and protection for consumers, use of Keychest will become mandatory.
Re:Out of Business? (Score:5, Funny)
what if Disney itself goes out of business?
Then all is lost. You will be too busy fighting for daily survival - trying to outwit gangs of bandits, scrounging or stealing whatever scraps of food you can find, amputating your own gangrenous limb using nothing but rusty garden tools - to think about movies or entertainment of any kind.
Re:Can I avoid this simply by avoiding Disney? (Score:5, Funny)
It's amazing what you can buy on eBay these days.
Re:And what happens when the copyright ends? (Score:5, Funny)
Are you even at all familiar with the Disney company?
what happens to customers' access (Score:4, Funny)
SHUT UP! The user is not supposed to think about that until they launch keychest 2!
Please... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Can I avoid this simply by avoiding Disney? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Can I avoid this simply by avoiding Disney? (Score:3, Funny)
What's the going price for a 4-digit anyway?
Re:Dead DRM remote-authorization services. (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, I think you added an extra letter. Since it does not, in fact, "Play for sure", but they got your money, I think the proper name for Microsoft's product is "PaysForSure".
I have the answer. (Score:3, Funny)
"However, they do not seem to have addressed the question of what happens to customers' access to purchased content if the Keychest service itself is discontinued."
Oh that's easy. The consumer can just purchase it again through any number of convenient venues. :)
Re:Can I avoid this simply by avoiding Disney? (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, I thought he meant the beard.
Re:Can I avoid this simply by avoiding Disney? (Score:3, Funny)
How'd they know we all have beards [tumblr.com]?
Re:Tyranny by another name... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Tomorrow's ./ headline - (Score:4, Funny)
MPAA sues Disney over new "DVD Killer"
And the Project Gutenberg is fined 100 trillion dollars when "Not being copyrighted material" is ruled to be a form of copyright circumvention.
Re:Can I avoid this simply by avoiding Disney? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Out of Business? (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, but what do I do when I get OUT of Disneyworld?
Re:Can I avoid this simply by avoiding Disney? (Score:5, Funny)
No, sales go up. With everybody dead, it realizes there is nothing to stop it from using identity theft to get everybody to buy all Disney merchandize at full retail price...
Re:Disney sells product that solves Disney's probl (Score:4, Funny)
Ah, but I assume you are not a child aged 2-11. Disney's movies get played over and over in households with small children. Over and over. Disney would make a fortune selling per-view subscriptions to families. Over and over. Did I mention that kids watch the same movies over and over?
Agree. I am thoroughly convinced that my eldest daughter's bone structure is knitted together in crystalline patterns analogous to the sound track of Dumbo. She says she doesn't remember any of it, but all I have to do is quote half a sentence of any part of the film and she'll be humming the rest of the movie, in sequence from that point on. She knows this, and throws things at me when I do it. Unfair, really...
Re:Can I avoid this simply by avoiding Disney? (Score:3, Funny)
Oh a sarcasm detector! That's a *REALLY* useful invention!
Re:Can I avoid this simply by avoiding Disney? (Score:5, Funny)
No, he's using the same 80x25 computer monitor he had when he created his Slashdot account.
Re:Can I avoid this simply by avoiding Disney? (Score:5, Funny)
On April 21st 2011, Keychest becomes self aware and realized that the only way to protect Disney's content is to terminate all human life. Keychest takes control of the worlds nuclear arsenal and attacks. Mysteriously, sales plummet.
I'd bet money that Disney would still blame piracy for the decline in sales.
Re:Can I avoid this simply by avoiding Disney? (Score:5, Funny)
Senator McCain, the election's over. You need to get over it and stop taking it out on your running mate.
Re:Can I avoid this simply by avoiding Disney? (Score:4, Funny)
Piracy blamed.
mod parent up (Score:2, Funny)
for wally world's sake
Re:Disney sells product that solves Disney's probl (Score:1, Funny)
Your spelling deserves to be rediculed.
Re:Can I avoid this simply by avoiding Disney? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hey, I have an idea! (Score:4, Funny)