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Basically the author is the article is saying (among other things)
- the offer from Pirates is sometimes better than the legal offer (because, for instance, it's inexistant).
- geo restrictions are annoying on the internet.
- "pirating is stealing" is a bullshit line, and the claimed loss are lies.
And, even though I think piracy is "bad", I agree with those points.
I don't care much about the legal aspect of it though, I see that as a waste of time. It seems obvious to me that the best way to "fight" piracy is simply to offer good (and cheap) legal offer. Making laws, hiring people to hunt pirates (like mgbino?), is ultimately pointless and just hurts the dumbest and the poorest people. I'm not pitying the dumb and the poor, I'm saying it's a petty red queen race.
If someone who's not living in Region 2 manages to view Region 2 DVD (by "legally" buying them and "legally" buying a reader), then that's kinda cheating. "Legal" or not, I don't care. And I don't think it's bad, but let's call a cat a cat: this is bypassing the intent of (artificial) geo-restriction.
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