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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Not all unauthorised copying is wrong, in a moral sense. It may or may not be wrong in a legal sense, depending on where you live.
Some DVDs have a compulsory play of a 30 second advert (about copyright infringement!), and IMO it's NOT wrong to make a copy without that advert for personal use, although it's certainly copyright infringement.
One would have thought that by now media companies would have realised that irritating their paying customers isn't a good business plan?
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I certainly agree that DRM is a completely wrong-headed approach, and can see the argument that in some cases copying can be argued to be morally justifiable. For example I do make a distinction between cases like the one you mention, where a copy is made for personal use of something you already own, and the case of downright piracy. In fact, I do strip DRM from ebooks I buy, so that I can do things like adjust the formatting to my likes. I don't have any moral issue with that at all.
As I've said, however - that's not the point I'm trying to make - I can see both sides of the argument. The thing I'm arguing against is the outright rejection of a set of arguments based
solely on the use of a word to mean something that someone else doesn't think it means, even though the original party has made it explicitly clear what they mean by it.
/JB