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Looks like DRM prevented to watch movies in many theaters yesterday (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Moonrise2473@feddit.it to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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When we went to our seats, the wait staff let us know that despite the fact that the previews were playing, we wouldn’t know until the movie actually started whether we could see the film or not. If it didn’t work, the screen would just turn black. Luckily, the film went through without a hitch.

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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 162 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

these are already thin profit margins, and its incredibly event-sensitive, like holidays. this sounds financially painful

[–] be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 189 points 10 months ago (2 children)

So, like usual, DRM only fucked the people trying to play by the rules.

[–] lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 82 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Made even worse by Sony, the manufacturer, completely exiting that market. I wonder if/how Sony will fix this, are there even staff on hand there with the technical details for their projector's DRM anymore?

It speaks volumes about how silly DRM is when a massive game publisher like TakeTwo/Rockstar resorts to selling a pirated version of their own game 🤦‍♂️

The next time this happens those projectors may end up being $20000 bricks, and I'm not too sure how many independents will be able to afford dumping a quarter of a million to replace all their projector screens

[–] Altofaltception@lemmy.world 45 points 10 months ago

I'm not too sure how many independents will be able to afford dumping a quarter of a million to replace all their projector screens

Don't worry, thanks to this amazing thing called capitalism a big chain will happily buy out those struggling independents at a fraction of their actual worth.