old animated series: probably unlikely as GOG needs to negotiate with another arm of a company for masters that may not exist. Re: anime: count how many Japanese games are on GOG. Then factor in that for each series, you need to negotiate with not only the JAPANESE rightsholder (studio plus magna authors) but any other rightsholder(s) as well(probably 1 for US/CA, 1+ for Europe, 1 for Asia, etc.). Basically, some things won't happen. I imagine the major sticking point with major studios is not being ripped off/being able to pull their movies with very short notice (Disney). For old classics, people might want too high a price for the series and/or be wanting exclusions on where it can be sold (ie you can sell in Germany but not Canada) as well as just not wanting it sold (Disney with old movies).
I highly doubt we'll see movement in acquisition of new movies for a very long time.

In my opinion, GOG's decision to do DRM-free movies was the right one....but that should have come later, after they first secured the following:


*Videogame Soundtracks.
*Videogame Books: Strategy guides, videogame education, novelizations, art books, comics.
*Audio Dramas. Advertise that they are ideal for passing time while playing a MMO.
*Public domain films, such as Reefer Madness.
*Mainstream books, whenever possible.
*New Anime & Manga - stuff that hasn't been created yet, to avoid global copyrights.
*Indie film series, like Star Command.
*CDProject contracting studios to make video content.
*New Hollywood films, before someone else makes a distribution deal.
*Classic films, such as Terminator.
ect...

Basically, GOG should work its way up from the lowest hanging fruit. That means initially gunning for stuff that has nostalgic attachment to gamers: strategy guides, animation from the 80's, and so forth. Once a given tier starts to run dry, GOG moves onto a more difficult segment.

Yeah, I know the legal side of things is usually an entangled mess, perhaps more so for movies/series than it is for games. But still, surely there's good content out there which GOG could realistically get their hands on. There's been many complaints ( at least here on the forum ) about the selection of movie content so far, but I think it was a decent start. They have to start somewhere and make progress in small steps, just as they did with their DRM-free games.

I like that GOG was doing DRM free movies... I just think GOG expected to much. DRM free gaming didn't happen overnight and neither was this. It was always going to be a really slow climb and it feels like they put no real effort into it before what seems like giving up.

I mean damn they didn't even provide a proper page to submit movies... they literally have an email address. I mean really GOG, if you going to do something don't half ass it. GOG has a problem with that unfortunately.

It's a nice idea, but I tend to see movies as a lost cause for the foreseeable future.

If it was possible I would certainly consider buying digital movies. I didn't start buying digital music until it started getting stripped of DRM. Physical media has shady business in it too, but I trust it more than some fuzzy online only weirdness calling itself a movie. To be fair, I rarely buy movies (feeling like they are generally over priced.)

For that I do see consumption services like Netflix to be a pretty good deal. It lets me chew through all kinds of stuff on the cheap. I honestly don't expect them to be sending me unprotected content. I'm not buying anything, I'm just paying for some random stuff to be there when I'm in the mood for some random stuff. Once I throw down 3 months worth of Netflix on a single title I expect there to be different rules, but it doesn't seem to work that way.

You have to start somewhere...

I'm reminded of a little sticker i read when i was signing up for classes in highschool:
What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.

Like little butterfly's wings is GoG's influence; Perhaps those little wings may some day cause huge effects all over the world.

If nothing else, this butterfly can be a lesson on how to not end up being pinned onto the board.

Well, there's VHX and Vimeo. But yeah, I would like to see Gog seriously join in that growing movement.

Funny; I thought ebook DRM would have been scrapped by now. The epub/mobi format war is in stalemate so stale it's rancid. (But I digress.)

Most halfway recent TVs have an USB port, enabling you to play movies from an external HDD. If you have a Smart TV (TV with the possibility to connect with the internet) and a wireless router (the things that don't bleep around while dialing up over the phone line), you can stream stuff from your PC (or home media center) on your TV directly. So there's no need to watch everything on your PC ;)

Hmmm well they have The Gamers and everything Dead Gentleman put out, which is one of the ones i really wanted, so that's a plus...

As far as I can see, both of these websites require third party software applications to view the content. The reason why I love GOG's DRM-Free movie strategy is because they do not require any software to watch the videos (aside from VLC Player, etc). Although it would be a bonus to watch your movies on Galaxy if you're away from home and can't access the files on your harddrive.

well, you're right nobody sell drm-free movies, only gog... but there are not A or B movies only D movies (really online you can find some good C movies that are tecnically better than gog movies... just look at this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Va8jDL6ONk ).

the only other store that sells videos DRM-free (japanease anime not movies) that I know is a site called wakanim (unfortunately in Italy has very few series).

Do note the tongue-out smiley, indicating a joke. :-P
Interesting, does it exist for any country other than and [url=http://www.wakanim.tv/it/v2]Italy?
Trying country codes for for and [url=http://www.wakanim.tv/uk/v2]the UK shows the site in French and an empty catalogue. Tries for most other countries (like , [url=http://www.wakanim.tv/pt/v2]Portugal, and [url=http://www.wakanim.tv/us/v2]USA), show nothing at all.

I don't know... really.
I think it's mostly a french site... in italy we only have 7 series and the interface is only partially translated to italian.
but wakanim is still in beta, it's a new site so there is a possibility it will grow and become better.

if it were only for streaming anime the best service available in Italy would be vvvvid (much like crunchyroll but completely free and in HD, only with advertising). crunchyroll is also available, but it has less anime than in the US.

Wakanim is interesting only as a service that sell DRM-free anime, but for now it is difficult to try it (since it does not offer really interesting series and I do not know French enough).

The "sell DRM-free anime" was the part that had me interested enough to try figuring out if they supported more languages to begin with. How does it handle dubs and subs? Does it offer original spoken language and English subs, or is everything dubbed/subbed in the "local" language (Italian, for you)?

I mean, French (and even Italian) is a small enough problem for me to just get around the store in search for DRM-free series (even if few), but having either of those languages as dubs or subs is a lost cause.