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Originally Posted by Phogg
It is, and the RIAA lost their war to have ripping and format shifting tools made illegal in a long and bitter fight in which their lobbyists (moneybags at hand) got legislation rammed through congress in the US only to see it struck down in constitutional challenges.
The book publishing industry is running an exact parallel, and their gameplay seems to be to try to get legislation passed but then avoid actually getting it enforced so it doesn't get struck down by the courts, who will surely follow precedent.
They have created a large paper mache scarecrow.
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That my reading of it, too. And the movie industry is slowly losing, too, on several fronts (the market will decide, and it will not consult the industry as it does). DIVX dies an embarassingly stupid death, and I'm convinced that a good deal of the reason Blue Ray is still a minority of movied disc sales is not DRM, per se, but simply that it's more expensive and clearly intended to be. The current nonsense with digital cables/converters will bite them in the ass, too.