|
Or how about either getting rid of DRM or allowing congress to remove the provision in the DMCA making it illegal to remove DRM from something I've paid money for.
Frankly all the BS over copyright is really just starting to infuriate. More than it really should, but damnit I spent money on the product and the company is trying to continue controlling what I do with that product even though format shifting is perfectly legal.
Oh, but wait, I can't remove the DRM to format shift. Oh, but I could point a video camera at my TV to record it if I wanted to format shift it.
BULL PUCKY!
Stop trying to gouge consumers again and again and again and again. Offer your product at a resonable price and allow use to do WHATEVER we want to with it, so long as we aren't distributing it (or a few of the other copyright no-nos like public performance). I'll pay a resonable price for that and I'll be happy and respect your company intead of loathing your company and completely ignoring things like removing the DRM from things I bought and format shifting them anyway.
The point is that you should be able to legally download a DRM removal tool and a format shifting tool completely legally and do it all on your own. Copyright is artifical already, though I honestly SUPPORT copyright law (though I don't support life + 70 or more years. When copyright first started, it was 14 years and could be renewed once for another 14 years. Life + 20 for independent creator or 50 years for corporate copyright is way more than enough).
This is double dipping combined with making it difficult on the consumer, for no reason other than greed and/or an attempt to trump up more charges against the consumer public to push for more "screw the little guy" copyright laws.
|