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Originally Posted by HarryT
... The other side of the story, which is very welcome, is that the government has also said that they will decriminalise ripping CDs to your iPod, giving copies to family and friends, and so on.
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Phew! How benevolent of the government!
Now I don't have to live in fear, because I have all my DVDs, BRs and CDs ripped and stored on my home server. Oh, and I was really worried about the Feds busting through my door, because my neighbor lent me an advanced copy of Up....
Nope. No carrots. Well, may be some, but ultimately, we are not going to like where the content providers want to stick them.
They'd love to lock all "alternative" avenues, so that they can charge us $5 for a 30-hour rental for that "Up" stream, and then offer it as a great deal for $4, if we sign a 2-year subscription agreement.
It's worth it for them, to spend a few $$$$$ lobbying a few Mandelsons, rather than to have to drop their prices to more reasonable levels, and make good content easily available on the market, which in reality would be much more effective at combatting piracy.