I had this idea, and it’s probably dumb, but hear me out and let me know what you think.
I really like movies. Streaming services are currently the best legal option to watch movies afaik, but often they don’t have that specific and maybe also old movie I want to watch - even with 3 different streaming services. Then I could rent it, but paying like 8 bucks every time I want to watch a movie is too much.
If I could buy and download a free (free as in no drm or other bullshit shenanigans) digital copy of a movie for a reasonable price I would be all over that shit.
But as we all know the greedy capitalists can’t keep milking the same old cashcows if the users have a permanent copy that they can potentially also distribute so that won’t happen any time soon.
So my idea was what is we as a public group (movie enthusiasts) joined and made a company funded by something like gofundme or similar. The sole purpose of the company would be to buy rights to movies and hosting digital copies free to download for anyone.
Wouldn’t that be something. Legal digital movies by the public for the public.
They could make you log in online before unlocking the drm to watch it. You could imagine a world where you have to log in on your Blu-ray player before playing anything and then discs would be locked to that user after the first play or something.
I probably shouldn’t have said that. Don’t want to give them ideas
But many blu-ray players lack wifi cards and eth ports, so it wouldn’t work in those, or they bypass it? Again killing the original value of the disc at all, which again is pretty good DRM, security through obscurity and all, but not good for the company.