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Industry Group Would Permit (Some) DVD Copying
Zocalo writes "The BBC is carrying the story that agreements have been made to permit legal DVD copying for use on portable devices and The Register appears to have the same story too. While extremely light on details, the mention of Microsoft and AACS leads me to believe this has something to do with Microsoft's Janus system which has been discussed here before. Perhaps more interesting though is that Disney and Time Warner are apparently on board... Can it be that the MPAA has learnt a lesson from the RIAA's heavy handed tactics or has Microsoft convinced them that Janus will work, despite their recent record of bug free coding, and we're going to have a repeat of the DeCSS fiasco?"
"A new trailer warns that buying a pirate DVD is like stealing a car or phone."
Um... no. That is like saying killing a caterpillar is the same as killing George Bush
Uh, no. Buying pirated goods is theft.
I think you got it wrong...
Say if you want a copy of some movie that you have in your hands (say rented the DVD at a movie store). If you copy the movie (compress to AVI, copy to DVD, whatever), you are creating a new instance of the movie but haven't compensated the production studio for the right to make a new instance. Theft, by any other name, is still theft.
By your terms about the victim starting to have something, then losing it. In this instance, the victim (movie company) never received compensation due to them.
I hope I made my point clear...
Nope, sorry. Theft means that your "victim" starts out having something, and ends up not having it anymore. It's really that simple.
In this case, the victim started out being able to sell a DVD for profit to someone, and ended up with someone else selling the victim's copyrighted material to someone and making the profit the victim was due on it.
Ergo, net loss to victim is the revenue on the sale by the pirater.
Coming soon - pyrogyra