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Originally Posted by Sydney's Mom
DVD encryption makes people break the encryption for purely innocent reasons. You would never expect I would do such things, especially since I am not very good with computers. But when I wanted to watch Transformers on my ipod, I learned how to break the encryption to put it on.
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Admittedly, I do the same...again, its not perfect but I was just raising it as an example where encryption seems to be more palatable because there is at least a standard between the dvd players themselves. I do think I read somewhere that there was a recent change so that buying a dvd now entitles people to digital versions (and oddly enough, it seems that is the direction Amazon is headed with reports that their next step is to make their books available on phonest, etc..).
I think the reason Amazon has such a large library is because they were able to convince more publishers to hop on due to their more restrictive DRM and restricting sales to US. And that is not a bad thing as a stepping stone because as more people adopt, then the power will shift.
I apologize to the original poster for taking this thread off-track.