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Looks like DRM prevented to watch movies in many theaters yesterday (www.theverge.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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From the article:

When we went to our seats, the wait staff let us know that despite the fact that the previews were playing, we wouldn’t know until the movie actually started whether we could see the film or not. If it didn’t work, the screen would just turn black. Luckily, the film went through without a hitch.

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[–] [email protected] 239 points 8 months ago (3 children)

The marvels of intellectual property

[–] [email protected] 170 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Remember when they started infecting people's computers with rootkits?

[–] [email protected] 72 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've avoided Sony products as best I can since then. I'm probably not aware of the full suite of Sony-owned brands and companies, but rootkit made it so I haven't had a piece of Sony branded merchandise in almost 20 years.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Same here! It's absolutely bonkers to me that everyone was just OK with that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

can younplease explain to me what happened. I haven't heard about this one

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

Oh fuck I’d forgotten about that.

I knew I hated Sony, but I’d totally forgotten about that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Hilariously enough, even at the theater, you'd get a better experience pirating the movie. Y'know, cause you'd ACTUALLY GET TO WATCH THE MOVIE AT ALL. Proving yet again piracy is a service problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

You could probably only find CAMS for in theater movies anyways.

And a CAM is arguably worse than nothing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

capitalist efficiency at its very best

Death to America

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Sony is a Japanese corporation

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That's 2Password2Remember, they sign off every comment that way. It's surprisingly relevant a lot of the time, though: America has had an almost unrivaled hand in shaping the economic landscape of Japan, from the San Francisco Treaty to the Plaza Accords

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Japan is an American corporation

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

You joke, but Japan hasn't even been allowed to have their own military since WWII. They barely are a separate nation.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

"Death to America" is like our version of "and peace be with you." It's a nice phrase to say at the end of every statement.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

Death to America to you as well