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Originally Posted by leebase
It's still WRONG and there are plenty of folks who choose to be ethical. They don't steal, not because they fear getting caught, but because they have a personal sense of ethics.
Getting around DRM is still something outside the skills of a lot of people. But you're right that personal piracy of music is rampant. Still, American Idol can't get away with not paying royalties to the artists who's songs are used. And individuals have been sued by the music industry.
Lee
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Once again, you seem to miss the point. I am not talking about the ethics. I'm talking about the bald-faced reality. The ethics of High Chivalry got blown away by the Gunpowder Revolution, it didn't come back. Same thing is happening to Copyright. It's being blown away by digital technologies. If you want it to come back (over the long term), you'll have to ban all digital technologies. (That's how the Japanese responded to the Gunpowder revolution, by shutting out the outside world and all the technologies that threatened the status quo.)
If you want to believe that obscurity = security, be my guest. It's a joke in actual security design circles.
Now as I pointed out, commercial exploitation is still affected by copyright,
as there is enough value at stake for litigation. The random user has been successfully sued, the legal costs for the suit vastly outweighed the about that could be seized. 100,000 such "victories" would, by itself, bankrupt the music industry.