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by digital_trench 3203 days ago
It's not about the content available. It's about the control.
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"Extortion" typically refers to using force to unjustly extract money from someone. Without unjust extraction of money, there can be no extortion. I understand that others have concerns about control, and that's totally legitimate, but it's also not what I was responding to.
The thing being extorted doesn't have to be money. It can be, for example, control of a distribution channel to lock out prospective competitors.
> average consumer ... complain with the extortionist environments that leads to.

I suppose so, but I wasn't really talking about entities that might be able to control a distribution channel. I was talking about average consumers.

Realistically, the limiting factor in (legally) distributing movies is not the technology, but getting the rights-holders to sell you those rights. This DRM tech does not really change the landscape on that, because a small new entrant already had no shot at making a deal.