Anyone here buy multiple copies of same DVD?

[Stubblecat]

Which is why I'm so comfortable with my very literal stance on my country's copyright act.

I've bought and re-bought so many movies on video, laserdisc, DVD and now even Blu-Ray that it boggles the mind.

Of course I'm the sucker for doing it, but at the time it always seems like the version you're getting is the final definitive word on that movie.

Hell, I paid $425 for the 9 (nine!) laserdisc Star Wars box set back in 1993. And do you know what it was called?

Yup. The Definitive Collection.

I've bought the original trilogy 3 more times since then. And I'm sure I'll continue to buy it.

So yeah, aperio, I think the studios bare some responsibility here.

Howsabout a buyback plan? If they issue a DVD and then double-dip it a year later, you should be able to bring the original back to the store and get a credit towards the double-dip.

[aperio]

You can't help wonder if there's some sort of legal loophole in there. I mean, if we're buying the "licensed right" to a movie (ie.. because we own a hard copy of the movie, we're not allowed to copy/redistribute it since we only own the licensed right for home viewing...) So if we own the licensed right to view it at home, why then wouldn't it be legal to upgrade the copy as technologies upgrade? There has to be some sort of equal consideration for both parties I would think.

Stubbs, did you ever get into divx when that came out? I didn't - but I'm trying to remember if that was the setup where they had different licensing rights for a movie (my brain is tired, so maybe i'm getting confused in my thinking here)... but wasn't that the one where on one plan you could only view it on one specific player it was tied to vs another plan where you could play it on any divx player etc?

Somehow this conversation reminded me of that.. i'm not sure why now, but it did. Feel free to tell me if I'm connecting the wrong technology with the wrong player... Either way I always thought that was a really jerky concept... though it would be nice to have some sort of identifiable 'license/key' for a movie title that would allow you to jump from one technology to the next.

[Stubblecat]

Ugh. Divx. Forgot about that.

Divx was supposed to be the death knell for both DVD and movie rental places. It ended up being neither.

I could go to a Wiki about it, but I prefer my old rusty memory:

Your Divx player was hooked up online, and you could 'rent' a movie for some fairly low price. It could only be watched a couple of times before it was deleted or you chose to pay to keep it encoded onto a disc.
But even then the disc would only play on your specific player. And there was no packaging or labelling on top of that.

Short story long: It tanked.


I do like your line of thinking regarding copyright, licensing and Fair Use.
The film industry has yet to tackle what the music industry is now facing, but they should give their heads a shake and start thinking about the future, or soon enough the consumer will revolt.

[Tyrfingr]

Maybe if there would be an extension of a movie that i really really enjoy.