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Originally Posted by gonzo
AEBN does have download to own. Been there as an option for most of the year as I recall. Its not availible except for the studios which choose to participate in the program.
DRM was pretty hotly debated a couple of years back. The consensus was that members hated it. Couple that with the unrealiable or pricy solutions availible and you can see that the industry as shyed away from it for the most part.
VOD is the only thing that has made a success of it to my knowledge.
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I asked Liz from AEBN about download to own and she said, "It's a model we have under consideration but have not implemented as yet."
That's why I didn't think they had it.
I currently sell through clips4sale and clips and just thought AEBN would follow suit. I would like to have 10 - 20 download sites to sell our content through. Good ones are hard to find though. Signed up for about 10, but only 2 turned out to be productive enough to work on. Several just don't have the traffic, most shut down after a short time.
I know DRM is not well liked by surfers, but I wonder if it was not "rolled out" correctly. Maybe it should have been called Digital Register Media, instead of Digital Rights Media. I think it should be viewed as a file with a register attached. They (the files) can be set to let people move, copy and burn freely after paying for it. What's the real difference between DRM and the current solution for download to own sites?
I have an indie music label website that I sell mp3 albums, bundled in a zip file with the CD cover art work. Because of the aversion of people to "DRM", I bought a php script to interface with paypal for pmt, then deliver the encripted url of the file to the customer. It would be a LOT easier to just DRM the music and put it on the server. I could deliver a MUCH higher quality music file too!
Another reason I brought this up, was that I just signed up for CCBill to use as a processor for a couple of new sites. When looking in the admin, I see they have a DRM solution also. My first thought of course was, "DRM is dead". But if it is, why do I keep seeing it everywhere I go?