[ShadowAce]

I think there's a cash cow out there in movie downloads once the DRM is thrown out.

EMI to Apple, Microsoft: Ditching DRM is going to cost you

[Richard Kimball]

You know, the funny thing about all this is that if the major movie companies had gotten their way, the VCR would have died. They lobbied Congress to make it illegal to record television broadcasts, then Disney tried to make it illegal to rent their videocassettes.

They had planned to release the movies to the theatres, then at around $80 a pop on video cassette, then to HBO, and finally to the networks. What actually happened made them far more money than they planned, but they couldn't see that. They were so busy trying to make a killing on every single viewing, that they didn't understand that hundreds of people would buy a movie for $15, when maybe two or three would at $80.