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Fewer People Copy DVDs Than Once Thought

Posted by Zonk on from the except-among-our-users dept.

MasterOfMagic writes "According to a survey reported at the NY Times, very few people actually have and use DVD copying software. The survey reports that only 1.5 percent of computer users have DVD copying software, and of those 1.5%, 2/3rds of them don't even use it. The survey also revealed that users were more likely to download DVDs than copy DVDs that they borrowed or rented, and that about half of all downloaded DVDs are pornography. According to the survey's lead analyst, 'With music, part of the appeal is sharing your own playlists and compilations with your friends ... I'm not sure people share their porn the way they share their music.'"

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  1. You Just Wait by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    With music, part of the appeal is sharing your own playlists and compilations with your friends ... I'm not sure people share their porn the way they share their music. I don't know if that's true. You just wait, once the video Zune comes out, you'll rather sit in silence on the subway than see what people are squirting at you.
  2. Oops by Imexius · · Score: 5, Funny

    mencoder dvd:// -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -o thematrix.avi

    Oops wrong window

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  3. Odd purchasing habits... by GWLlosa · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does this mean that the guy I saw at the Best Buy buying 3 spindles of blank DVDs was, in fact, about to record 160 discs full of porn? I'd think he'd get carpal tunnel....



    From changing out the discs repeatedly, of course.

  4. The numbers by halcyon1234 · · Score: 5, Funny

    1.5% of users said they copied DVDs.

    12.5% of users said they didn't copy DVDs

    86% of users shifted their eyes back and forth, coughed and changed the subject

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  5. Duh by illegalcortex · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course very few people copy dvds. It would be rather silly for ALL of us to rip them before putting them up on bittorrent.

  6. Re:Sharing porn... by LighterShadeOfBlack · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...reminds me of this thing men and women used to do together, before the internet, before the dark times. Sit around and talk about how they wished there was some way they could share all their porn?
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