I just spotted this: (http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/03/zediva/) on the
blagotubes.  TL;DR: this company has a farm full of dvd machines.  When you
want to stream a video, they physically play the DVD in their farm, using
your computer as a remote control, and send the video stream over the ether
to you.  They claim this is the same as rental.

While not free, this is a really interesting workaround using rental
protections.  Think it'll hold up?  Could a free culture group set up
something similar to stream copyrighted movies?

-- 
Alec Story
Cornell University
Biological Sciences, Computer Science 2012
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