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Originally Posted by HarryT
My point is not that it defeats the serious pirate, but that it prevents the type of "casual piracy" that's all too easy, even for the person who would probably regard themselves as basically honest, that you get with CDs, say. It's so easy to run off a copy of a CD these days.
In order to "chip" a Playstation, OTOH, you have to deliberately set out with the intent to break the law; it's not something anyone does "accidentally".
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Harry, based on this statement, I suppose you would not replace your own Sony Reader's battery but would pay Sony to do it since, 1) it is not easy to do and 2) you'd be cheating Sony out of their fair profit.
Personally I do not hold with piracy (of any kind). This includes the "legal" piracy that industries do when they restrict my rights to do with property I purchased any thing I want to.
Some here have said that if we didn't want to put up with DRM we could just not purchase anything with DRM. Using that paradigm, if the entertainment didn't want to put up with piracy, they could just not sell entertainment. I'm sure you'd agree that does not make any sense.
IMO it is immoral for industry to sell me a crippled product that they have purposely crippled, especially when they either hide the fact in the small print or don't even bother to tell me like Sony's rootkit which was illegal. Sauce for the goose/sauce for the gander.
