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Originally Posted by xg4bx
the article nails it: its not about piracy, its about getting you to pay for your movies/books/games/cds again. no wonder they will defend drm until their dying breath. the ebook market is no different. they want you to buy, rebuy and keep rebuying the same books over and over and over. they don't make any money if you can just convert your ebooks.
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You could make a flimsy case that its for the netbook and tablet people who somehow might not know how to hook up an external DVD drive- especially tablets which can't use their USB ports for connecting external storage devices. But the article's right, it'd be easier to just rip the movie and be done with it, DMCA be damned.
Its not like anyone's ever been prosecuted for it, especially not the part about filing malicious takedowns.