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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
So that just leaves the freeloaders, people who download as an alternative to paying for stuff. Poverty is the main motivation for those people,
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No it's not. No more than poverty is the main motivation for millionaires who dodge their taxes.
I disagree with Stonetools about the 'multi-format incompatibility assumption', though.
Even back in the days of 8-tracks and vinyl, we dubbed to cassette for use in our other car and courts upheld this as reasonable.
We weren't allowed to give out the cassettes to all our friends, even though there was no technological means in place to prevent us from doing so. Like with just about every other crime in free society, we were simply expected to obey the law.
We've advanced technology for the reason of making access to the IP we have rights to easier and more convenient, not to maintain limitations from decades past.
We don't want new technology to make things harder for us.
Seems reasonable.
Sadly, from the attitudes towards piracy and contempt for the rule of law expressed by some here, it's also reasonable that the industry feels it can't trust us.
ApK