First thing I thought of was: who the hell uses a VCR anymore?
Right now I can't believe that I'm actually surprised by this. It just annoys me that companies still believe that this is the best way to deal with these kinds of situations.
One one hand, I can understand that they want to keep this sort of thing out of the hands of the piratical distributors, those who take the program and chop out all the commercials and torrent it, but are they (still) so narrow minded to think that a flag is going to stop anyone really determined?
In other words, this will only really stop people who want to view their favourite shows legitimately, which is a really dumb move on their part.
I wonder how long it will take for someone to get the brainwave that maybe they should find some way to profit off of the freedom of information instead of trying to stifle it. Even I can think of some ways to try to make it work.
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