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1. Comment - Cablevision DVR to Store TV Remotely

   (Mar 30, 2006 - 12:06 AM)

   I understand your arguments about people wanting a free lunch. It will be a long debate between the older people that want to OWN things and the newer age people who grep up on the internet and just kinda rent their media content.
   
   I'm a newer age person and thought that renting and DRM controls were fine. Until I bought songs on Napster (the pay per song version). I re-installed my OS only to find out that Napster "no longer offers that track" and wouldn't let me download the appropriate DRM into Windows Media to play the mp3 file stored on my computer. I had bought the song for a dollar yet I could not play it. Honest people just want to know that when they buy something they will actually own it. I know I own the DVDs that are sitting under my TV. With DRM I doubt that many of my songs are still mine after 3 or 4 reinstalls of my windows operating system.
   
   What I thought I would point out also is that you are mad because people call cable companies monopolies. From an economic definition they are. No one else can use the cable that is piped to your house. They are completly protected from competition by most local municipalities. They often receive tax credits for the cables they lay to communities meaning that the city helped finance them. They are monopolies. They do make crazy amounts of money from these monopolies. But I believe as you do, vote with your dollars. That being said, I still subscribe to Charter because I don't want to pay 80 dollars a month for DirecTV, lock myself into year agreements, and get bad reception when it rains hard.