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Originally Posted by ardeegee
Not these specific laws, maybe, but there are constant pushes by the entertainment lobbies to get laws passed that DO prevent any and all types of copying for any purposes whatsoever. For instance, attempts to end the "fair use" doctrine: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/08...doch-vows.html
and attempts to close the "analog hole" with restrictions built into HDMI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-ba...ent_Protection
The various entertainment industries very much want not only control over every single viewing/listening/reading of their work, they want to be able to TRACK every use. Such as when Circuit City attempted to kill DVD with DIVX:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX
The powers-that-be in the entertainment industry are Orwellian thugs. And no number of laws and filters are going to keep their obsolete business model of artificial scarcity alive.
I'm not claiming that I know what will replace their artificial scarcity, futile copy-locking model. I don't know how content creators will manage to make money in the future. But I do know that the RIAA, MPAA, and their pet politicians will-- in the long term-- fail, dry up, and blow away. |
IMO you and others like you are the reason that the powers that be in the entertainment industry have become Orwellian thugs in your eyes. If people like you did not break the law causing losses to the company, they would not have to take the actions that they have.
I know you don't consider it wrong, but IMO it is no different than if you go into a store and shoplift. Or see a car you like and just take one for you and others for your friends. If you did those things, you better believe that those "Orwellian thugs" would be after you.
I realize that on this site, my opinion here is going to be in the minority. However it is my opinion that it is theft and that it does hurt real people.