Subj : Highly profitable
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Sat Jul 16 2022 05:19 pm

 Re: "Highly profitable" Bay Street Video store n Toronto thrives
 By: Nightfox to Kaelon on Sat Jul 16 2022 04:09 pm

> I agree.  And after a while, when optical disc formats started to decline, I
> wondered if they'd start selling movies on USB flash drives instead.  But of
> course, that hasn't happened..  They still want to be able to control how we
> watch the content and try to prevent people from making copies of it.

When I was working at Broadcom, one of our device functions was a memory card (e.g. SD Card) reader/writer, and the word from the marketing dept. was that Hollywood was going to start distributing or renting movies on SD Cards. I don't think that every transpired, but there were companies definitely planning to do so.
https://www.michaelsinsight.com/2009/11/blockbuster-looks-to-distribute-movies-on-sd-memory-cards.html

In any case, I think they could've distributed DRM-movies on USB flash drives or SD Card if they really wanted to.
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