Our goal is to offer you cinema classics as well as some all-time favorite TV series with no DRM whatsoever, for you to download and keep on your hard drive or stream online whenever you feel like it. We talked to most of the big players in the movie industry and we often got a similar answer: "We love your ideas, but … we do not want to be the first ones. We will gladly follow, but until somebody else does it first, we do not want to take the risk". DRM-Free distribution is not a concept their lawyers would accept without hesitation. We kind of felt that would be the case and that it's gonna take patience and time to do it, to do it, to do it right. That's quite a journey ahead of us, but every gamer knows very well that great adventures start with one small step. So why not start with something that feels very familiar? We offer you a number of gaming and internet culture documentaries - all of them DRM-Free, very reasonably priced, and presenting some fascinating insight into topics close to a gamer's heart.
walrus1 wrote on Aug 27, 2014, 21:07:
GOG has attempted to jump the shark here. I wouldn't be surprised if the shark ate them.
jdreyer wrote on Aug 27, 2014, 18:02:This I know now, but it's not exactly prominent is it? It doesn't have it's own category, it isn't in gaming, it isn't in software. Not under demo's...
http://store.steampowered.com/app/245550/
saluk wrote on Aug 27, 2014, 18:30:
Pretty sure they misjudged the demand here. I care a tiny bit about drm free movies. Back when you had to hack a dvd to play it on linux I cared a bit more. I hate what the drm does to the hardware of the film landscape a lot more than from the software side.
On the other hand, I've mostly given into the subscription model for movies+tv. Just out of convenience. I don't really care to own it. I've already watched a lot of these on netflix. I can see very few movies that I would want to own this way, but the prices aren't bad in general, pretty comparable to other digital film purchases.
But it just seems like a bad fit all around.
Creston wrote on Aug 27, 2014, 16:08:
While I'm all for DRM-free stuff, ... ,movie / dvd DRM has never bothered me.
Unlike, say, game DRM, which has made games actively unplayable at times.
So I'm not sure there's a huge demand for this?
Mashiki Amiketo wrote on Aug 27, 2014, 16:32:Hyatus wrote on Aug 27, 2014, 13:19:
How did they beat Steam to the punch?
Steam has movies as well(granted, not DRM-free).
Really? It's actually news to me that steam has movies. And I've been in the beta program for the last 6 years, and this is the first time that I've even heard of it.
Hyatus wrote on Aug 27, 2014, 13:19:
How did they beat Steam to the punch?
Steam has movies as well(granted, not DRM-free).
Hyatus wrote on Aug 27, 2014, 15:53:
They're tough to find. It's better to look for them by tag:
Movie
Hyatus wrote on Aug 27, 2014, 13:19:Exactly.
How did they beat Steam to the punch?
Steam has movies as well(granted, not DRM-free).
Verno wrote on Aug 27, 2014, 15:17:
Even just browsing the web store there is no category for them unless I'm just overlooking it.
Kajetan wrote on Aug 27, 2014, 14:17:Hyatus wrote on Aug 27, 2014, 13:19:Movies are not very prominently featured on Steam. I guess many Steam customers are not aware of them at all.
How did they beat Steam to the punch?
Steam has movies as well(granted, not DRM-free).
Julio wrote on Aug 27, 2014, 14:21:
Great idea, the current movie selection sucks. Hopefully we see increased selection in the future and I'm in for sure.
Hyatus wrote on Aug 27, 2014, 13:19:Movies are not very prominently featured on Steam. I guess many Steam customers are not aware of them at all.
How did they beat Steam to the punch?
Steam has movies as well(granted, not DRM-free).