[DawnFalcon]

Your explicit and repeatedly stated support for limiting user rights based only on the medium which data is supplied in, regardless of other concerns such as user rights and fair use, is not "necessary" unless you chose to believe the line given by big media hook, line and sinker.

The only fact is that you are trying to state as a fact what is no more and no less than the blatantly anti-consumer line which has produced such gems as restrictive DRM, regional restrictions and the ACTA, and you are supporting the very reasoning which produced them - your so-called "opposition" to those technologies is completely inconsistent with your actual party line.

If big media wants to alter the rights concerning media, they either need to drastically drop their prices to account for the fact that they are delivering a far less usable product or to give the user other rights more appropriate to the medium rather than the selfish "gimmie" approach which you are stating is somehow a "fact".

Strangely enough, outside America, that approach gets remarkably little support. From anyone outside the political process or paid by big media. (They pay a lot of people, of course, but...)

In the longer run, all you are going to achieve by pushing that line is the radicalism of a younger generation against copyright, and a blanket private copy exemption from them as a result.