DMGAmazon's Terrible Video Download Service
In my frenzy for more Deadwood, I neglected to read the Unbox Video: Terms of Use. They're pretty horrible. BoingBoing has a great rundown, which is worth reading, but comes from a more idealogical anti-DRM perspective. My objections to DRM are entirely based on the fact that DRM makes the music and movies I buy less useful, and does so at the whim of, and for the benefit of, people who are trying to get me to give them money.
I can't burn the movies I buy from Unbox to DVD and play it on my DVD player. I can't play them on my Linux-based entertainment PC. I can't move them to my iPod to watch on a plane/train/lunchbreak. I can't watch them at a friend's house. Yet even with all these restrictions, Amazon wants me to pay exactly the same ($19.62 at the time of writing) download V for Vendetta, as I would to buy the DVD. No freakin' way.
Why do I care? Because I want downloadable video. Bad. I want to pay per episode. I won't pay Time Warner Cable $75/mo for the three shoes I actually watch, but I'll eagerly shell out $1.99 per episode.
I care because this is exactly the service I want, but every time somebody tries it, they screw it up by making it useless and expensive.