My biggest concern is not now, but the future. With anything I "own", I should have a high degree of certainty that there's no dependency on any external service for it to remain useful - and I don't have this on DRMed content. If their authentication servers go offline, my movies should still be playable.
This was demonstrated oh-so-nicely by the ironically named PlaysForSure DRM scheme.
I don't give a damn about rental content having DRM[1] since I can't even pretend to own it, but what's bought to own needs to work. It needs to work today, it needs to work next week, and it needs to work in ten years. If I lose the file that's on me (just as if I lost the physical disk), but someone taking a server offline can't prevent me from using my media.
When that changes, I'll start buying content again. Last time I bought a movie was in 2005, and that was on DVD. I started buying music again when iTunes went DRM-free, and I'll happily do the same for movies too. Likewise on video games - anything with serious DRM (SecuROM, for example) will get no money from me.
[1] Assuming it works fine during the rental period, of course.
This was demonstrated oh-so-nicely by the ironically named PlaysForSure DRM scheme.
I don't give a damn about rental content having DRM[1] since I can't even pretend to own it, but what's bought to own needs to work. It needs to work today, it needs to work next week, and it needs to work in ten years. If I lose the file that's on me (just as if I lost the physical disk), but someone taking a server offline can't prevent me from using my media.
When that changes, I'll start buying content again. Last time I bought a movie was in 2005, and that was on DVD. I started buying music again when iTunes went DRM-free, and I'll happily do the same for movies too. Likewise on video games - anything with serious DRM (SecuROM, for example) will get no money from me.
[1] Assuming it works fine during the rental period, of course.