Movie distributors (Warner, Dreamworks, Paramount, etc.) and DVD vendors (Amazon, Best Buy, etc.) are currently misleading customers trying to purchase digital copies of movies. Movie distributors have started limiting installation windows for the digital copy of the movie purchased. They put the digital copy's installation code's expiration date in super tiny print on the back of their boxes, hidden in with the other standard legal mumbo jumbo that doesn't impact the consumer. If a customer happens to purchase the item after the digital copy has expired, despite it saying DIGITAL COPY (r) on the font, the vendor will direct the customer to the movie distributor, who then tells the customer they're out of luck as the customer was supposedly given adequate warning with the digital copy expiration date hidden in super tiny print on the back. Likewise, vendors who are selling the movies online are not proactively including information about the expiration date on the digital copy to let the customer know the digital copy has a limited installation window &/or that the digital copy might no longer be valid, yet they advertise the item as "Blu-Ray / DVD / Digital Copy", leading the customer to believe a (valid) digital copy is included with the purchase of the item.

Movie distributors put (tm) after Blu-Ray and (r) after Digital Copy on the front of every box, so why --if they're going to insisted on limiting when the consumer is allowed to install the digital copy-- do they refuse to put an asterisk or something else to warn the customer to search the small print for limitations on the digital copy advertised as part of the purchase item?

By signing this petition, I would like us to send a clear message to the movie distributors and vendors to stop misleading the consumers. Movie distributors should have (1) to clearly denote on the front of the box that there's a caveat for the digital copy part of the purchase, and (2) they should have to make the digital copy expiration date larger on the back side so it isn't hard to find nor is it difficult to read. Movie vendors should have to (1) include applicable expiration dates in the easy-to-read online description of the product and (2) they should have to remove "Digital Copy" from the description of the item once the digital copy's code has expired so as to not continue misleading their customers that a (valid) digital copy is included in the purchase.