GOG was supposed to be rereleasing black and whites and getting licenses for classics. Instead they focused on weirdass college projects that no one gives a flying crap about. :/

They were on the right track with real indies like Ink and The Frame. They could have aimed for obscure but interesting titles too like Nun of That.

GOG executives indicated in a video feed in the last year or so that there is Hollywood content for the taking if they are willing to sell it regionally, as well as why it is set up like this due to the rights to films and TV not being owned by a single company, but rather by a multitude of investors spread all over, with the rights to distribution being owned by different owners in different regions making it impossible to secure worldwide distribution rights for just about anything. The best they can do is get regional distribution rights for individual titles and what regions they are available in would vary wildly. They put the question out to customers to see if people would accept this limitation and got back a resounding "no" apparently. These complex ownership rights of film and television are due to the nature of how they are funded by investors ultimately so the problem of distribution rights is likely never going to change, which basically means that GOG will never sell mainstream movies and television shows unless they can accept a policy of regional distribution, which the customerbase has outright rejected.

+1000

With the exception of anything the BBC did prior to about... 2000 (and after the great archive purge of the 1960s).

Completely forgot about the whole regional bs with movies. I can see right away like you indicated, wouldnt work here without people in different places missing out on a regular basis :/.

I don't expect AAA movies any more than I expect AAA games at GOG. But they're not even getting the indie movies.

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At least, the should bring back the possibility to stream movies, instead of having to download them.

I just use DVDs. That's DRM free for me.
Having an xbox360 comes in handy, strictly for watching DVDs.

Maybe that is the crucial point. It seems GOG is not recognized for selling DRM free movies and well as the amount of movies they have to offer is rather limited. I guess this idea just did not take off and the sales are not really promising.

Not every idea has to be good.

Or, maybe, now that they already have region locking in place (Bethesda games if my memory serves me well) and the first wave of complaints linked to that, it might be a good time to revisit the region locking for wider audience movies.

I previously wrote that and I still believe it, I'd be far more happy to have movies here that someone in the UK could be while I can't than nobody having access to a DRM-free version of these movies.

I'm not really a movie person, so I cannot really give my support at this point, but I'd certainly purchase some of the more well-known movies.

Adding TV series on the other hand might be an interesting idea.

No shit.

Especially when it comes to aquiring director's cuts

I really don't think so. The DRM-free movie platform seems unreasonable pricey for a product for which streaming seems to be a very viable business model. I don't feel the need to own a vast variety of movies at all, if I have a working streaming platform and I would be surprised if DRM-free ownership sees a Renaissance for movies and series in a digital format.