:» Amazon Spends Over A Year Developing Movie Download Service Then Shackles It With Absurd Restrictions
"Amazon launched it’s new Unbox Video service yesterday. After reportedly over a year of development, the new service allows movies to be permanently downloaded for the same price as purchasing the physical DVDs from Amazon or rented for 24 hours for $3.99. Unfortunately, Unbox is has so many restrictions that it is unlikely to make very many people happy and it’s license agreement breaks new ground in absurdity.
Amazon had the chance to do something revolutionary. If they released a service that let customers immediately download movies and watch them on their DVD players, they would have a serious shot at some of Netflix’s record profits and 5.169 million subscribers. Instead, they gave into movie industry demands and spent a year and untold dollars developing an over-priced service plagued with unreasonable restrictions:"
I will, at a later date, describe the horrors I have gone through trying to see one simple 1.99 video from the TV show 'Rock Solid'. This is clearly not one of Amazon's better ideas.
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