This makes illegal downloading MUCH harder to rationalize

[captain_slinky]

The Disney Movie Rewards Program has made pretty much every rationalization I ever had for illegally downloading a movie a moot point now. All I have left is "It's not available on DVD" and/or "I like to steal things because I'm a bad man".

New DVD and Blu-Ray movies from Disney have a code in them. Take this code to their website and it works two-fold:

1) You get "Points" for the purchase that you can redeem for nifty little (or big) prizes... from free stuff (downloads) to awesome collectibles and all points in-between. But that's not what's going to make it hard for me to rationalize bootlegging...

2) Your purchase gives you unlimited access to a Digital Cloud copy of your movie! You can watch it streaming on your computer, mobile device, whatever... FOREVER! THEY GIVE YOU A DIGITAL BACK-UP THAT YOU CAN NEVER LOSE OR SCRATCH OR OTHERWISE MAKE UNPLAYABLE!!!

That... that's just incredible to me. Why hasn't the rest of Hollywood started doing this? This is *extremely* forward-thinking of Disney! I can hardly wait to start buying movies again instead of just rent-n-rip!

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Oh how I hated The Princess and The Frog! I mean I really, REALLY hate it! It came from the tail end of a really bad era of Disney movies, that era where they thought Pixar was going to split from them and they said "Fine! Go! We can make movies just as good as Pixar movies! We don't need you!" And then they made a lot of movies that felt like... well, like somebody trying to imitate Pixar and doing a terrible job of it.

Emperor's New Groove = YES! Excellent film! If you like that one, you may need to RedBox some Tangled action... just ignore the stupid lizard and love the rest of the movie (you'll know what I mean when you see it)

Existing movie libraries - they've got folks covered! As long as it's a movie that is in their database (only adding current and future releases) you can upload a pic of the movie and your receipt to have it added to your on-line back-up. They've been putting the Movie Rewards Codes in to the packaging for a few years now, so most DVD releases of the past several years are eligible :)