I too still use the DVD/BD service, Lately I have found that its older non-american titles that I can't find on Netflix or other streaming services (I have hulu thru my phone company w/"Limited" commercials, haha unwatchable)

Specifically older UK and Australian titles that weren't even released in movie theaters in the US.

Its also great for great classic old series that haven't made it onto a streaming service (All in the Family for instance).

That's the thing with the DVD service, if it was available for sale on DVD the studio can't restrict it or expire it like they do for streaming.

I love watching the Netflix created content via streaming, but w/o the DVD service, there are things you may want to see you could only find used or on ebay h. Not everyone only watches new releases, there are a 100 years of wonderful movies out there and only a fraction of them are available streaming.

That said, the price keeps inching upward, I'm on the most basic plan now just so I can fill in the gaps when I want to see one of the forementioned types of movies/TV shows... There is a point of diminishing returns on this however, currently i'm ok with the price, but I reevaluate the benefit I am getting with every hike... At some point it won't be worth it, hopefully they don't shoot themselves in the foot and out-price the people that still find this service valuable.

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I think the precident for this is the Apple vs Microsoft suit in the 80's when Windows came out, Apple claimed "look and feel" was too similar.

They lost.

I'd say both companies are doing ok now, so when a competitor copies you, your only real option is to keep innovating.

Innovate or DIE!

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I saw some show where there was a music producer that lameted that the death of the album (which will be be cemented with the death of CDs) meant that every song has to be a "hit". Gone were the gems on the album that you didn't like first play, even the 2nd play, but the 5th+ time you heard them you started to "get" it.

I recognized this phenomena back when I used to copy my CD's to cassette tape to listen to in the car (car CD players still skipped all the time). Songs that I would just skip with my CD remote, I now had to listen to in the car or start fiddling with the FF while I was driving. I noticed I found these "5th play" songs and some of these are still my favorite songs to this day. These are what made albums truly stand out.

As well, there is the artistry described by the parent, where the album is not just a collection of songs, but a cohesive listening experience. When I rip my cds, I still put the whole album on my phone, but there is not much incentive for artists to create albums like this if there is no medium for them to exist on.

Its a shame, another nail in coffin of the dying music industry. Pretty soon music will just be something to put in soundtracks of movies and shows.

Why didn't you just put bootcamp on it?

Unless this was like 10 years ago and it was PPC it would have run windows.

Or they could trade cocaine for guns to secretly overthrow a government they don't like... and if they get caught, have some low level patsy take the blame. He'll be ok, he'll just go into talk radio.

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Honest answer = we all hate DRM cause we just wanna pirate shit.

I mean its nice to be able to transfer it to different devices and such, but come on, who doesn't want shit for free.

Exactly my point. $=enforcement. Most likely outcome if I call the FBI about my movie? "Sorry, you'll have to call the local police department. They won't do anything either, but hey, it'll get you off the line."

Again, exactly my point. Same law, but one crime is important and has victimized 'real live movie stars', and the other is ignored and 'public cable access'.

Funny, I think if "little bad guy" took my homemade independent movie and spread it around, he'd be facing two charges. Jack and Shit. No prosecutors, no FBI, no nothing. Same if the big movie studio stole my film. The reason this went anywhere is because the movie studio can afford endless lawyers, and can pull the strings that us 'mortals' can't.

We shouldn't prosecute any bad guy if the law is not equally enforced across the board.

it's a cautionary tale, not a manual.

How about the fact that the evidence that is used to convict you rejoins the atmosphere, and there is no way for you to independently check the results?

DUI laws and enforcement are stacked in favor of the state, to a ridiculous degree. Even here in MN.

According to one of the commenters, this may be a result of adjusting the algorithms to git rid of endless "Bieber" related trends.

At what price Bieber Freedom?

If a forest of trees fall, but no one can report it, did it really happen?

Maybe because they are using those tax dollars to do pointless things that waste the money and fail to do any good. If the U.S. government and the States can't keep things going with close to half the GDP of the richest nation in the world, isn't it time to think the people in charge are incompetent?

Like the TSA, DHS, Border Patrol, and the astronomical amount of defense spending? I look forward to the link to your comment pointing out these failures when Bush was the head cheese.

Blind faith in government is what's nuts.

We agree on something! We probably both like ice cream too!

Please, enlighten me. You said, "I've never heard anyone wish physical harm on him. I've never heard of people in the media fantasizing on the airwaves about his assassination or any of the many other reprehensible things that were directed towards Bush, and seemingly accepted as perfectly reasonable by people I would think are above all that."

I said, and I paraphrase, "WTF, dood. It's everywhere. Open remaining eye, and take spoon out of cup."