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Originally Posted by Jaime_Astorga
It is usually not wise to underestimate technology's abilities to solve problems, but neither should one forget that there are limits to what is possible. Besides, if any entity can actually stop us from manually jotting down an eBook we are reading, from hiding our files away from prying eyes, or from sharing data with people by physically walking over to them and giving them storage devices, then by God is a little copyright infringement going to be the least of our problems.
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The idea is to stop casual downloading by people who aren't tech savvy. They know that anyone who knows their way around computers will get around what they do, but they are just a minority so they don't really matter.
The main problem, as I see it, is that the people who aren't tech savvy used to buy their pirate content on CDR from the people who are. When it became easy to download that content for themselves, it left them with some spare income, which they then spent on other (legitimate) entertainment goods.
But if you push downloading back underground again, they will just go back to buying CDRs from the people they used to buy them from. Which means the entertainment companies that were benefitting from their CDR money will lose out.