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"RealNetworks' RealDVD should be called StealDVD," explained Greg Goeckner, MPAA Executive Vice President and General Counsel.

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Originally posted by DXR88:

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Unrealplayer Ver. 2.0a.

Dog eats Dog.

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Originally posted by duke8888:

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This goes to show you its all about the money, big companies corporate greed.

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5. Double-Dipping DVDs

More often than not, though, studios will rerelease for any goddamn thing, often tacking on just enough "extras" to give them an excuse to slap on a new cover with a gold or silver bar at the top. A prime offender is Sony Home Video, which apparently can't be bothered to rerelease classic films like The Shop Around the Corner or His Girl Friday but are more than happy to crap out four different editions of Resident Evil.

4. Ads in Front of Movies

3. Hollywood Squeezing Theaters for Every Dime

2. The MPAA

By handing out movie ratings, the Motion Picture Association of America controls the entire movie industry. Seriously. You want an example of a dark conspiracy controlling a major American industry? This is it. Right here. The MPAA decides what you'll see in movie theater and video chains, and just as importantly, what you won't.

1. Video on Demand

As much money as Hollywood makes on DVD (and now, Bluray), there's one thing about it they still hate. Namely, the fact that you get to watch your copy over and over again without paying them again each time. It's not fair, dammit!

Even worse, you can loan your disc to a friend, without your friends paying to see it. Or, you can sell it back to some record store that deals in used DVDs. It's like highway robbery! You might as well leave these studio execs bleeding in an alley, you cold-hearted bastard!

They hate it so much that they've been trying to devise a system that will lure the consumer away from, you know, actually owning movies and watching them when it's convenient, to a system where the consumer pays, every single time, to watch the movie, at Hollywood's convenience.

The first attempt was that venerable cable staple, pay-per-view. Remember when you were a kid, how PPV got "all the hot Hollywood movies FIRST"? Remember also how it cost about four times what it cost to rent a video? Remember how you laughed in their face?

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Originally posted by noncomjd:

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The one and only reason every dvd isn't $25 or $30 is piracy.
These companies have been forced to come to grips with the fact that they had to make movie more reasonably priced or every person would download or rip them free. Piracy will force them to come to grips with the fact that people not longer have to wait from them to produce a dvd of older material. These companies react rather than take the lead and are still trying to hold back technology which is not only inevitable but is here already.

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