This really is great news. One step closer to a working system for rewarding producers of information. Now, all we need is a voting system so the money can be democratically distributed. Then we can forget all about this silly idea that copyright holders has, or even want to have, the ability to limit the use of their work.
To my defense I can say that I really tried to be as polite and civil as possible. But it isn't easy if english is not your native language, and all english you know is learned from american action movies:) Not that it matters though. If I can't express myself, that's 100% my own fault.
I'll do my best in the future to try be more polite in situations like this. And so should you - calling me an idiot goes contrary to your own post.
I tried to send her this mail, but it bounced. So I sent it to hotline@mpaa.org instead:
To: hotline@mpaa.org
Subject: CSS preventing me from buying DVDs.
Hi.
I'm not sure if you are the one I should write to. It appears that you are involved with
anti-piracy, but I don't want to discuss piracy, just CSS. However, this was the only address I
could find. Feel free to forward it to whoever might be more appropriate.
I don't buy any DVDs. The reason is quite simple, I don't know how to watch them. Heck, it is
even ILLEGAL for me to know how to watch them.
Of course I could buy one of those MPAA-approved players. Or, strictly speaking, I _cannot_ buy
one. Simple because they are not for sale.
If I own something, I have the right to use it. I have the right to open it and look inside. I
have the right to modify it as I please. I have the right to fiddle with it to see how it works.
If I don't have these rights, I don't own it. Maybe even more importantly, if I own something, I
can control it. It cannot fuck with me, because if it did and I could control it, I would use
that control to stop it from fucking with me.
You cannot buy a legal DVD player. All you can do is buy the right to take it home and connect
it to your TV set.
I'm no different from most people. If something is fucking with you, you get pissed, right? I
know I do. Imagine you are driving a car, but the car had a GPS device that turned off the
engine whenever you tried to drive into certain areas, chosen at random. Unfortunately, your
home is in one of these areas, so you have to take the bus the last mile just to get home. This
would piss you off, right? I would get furious. But of course I wouldn't be angry if a car I own
stops because the engine is broken. That's not the cars fault.
See the difference? If the car is broken, OK, it's broken. If the car is not broken, but
_designed_ to fuck with me, I get mad. Of course, if I own the car that's no problem. I just rip
out the GPS device and get rid of the problem. If I cannot do that, then I don't control the
car. The car controls me.
Of course, I wouldn't expect that I have the legal right to run over people, even with a car
that I own. But what I do with my car in my own garage is strictly my business. If it isn't,
then I don't own the car.
That's the main reason I only want things in my home that I own. The ownership gives me a
guarantee that my things are not fucking with me.
Now, you might ask, why would I ever want a device in my home that I don't own and that I _know_
is designed to fuck with me? Of course I don't want it in my home. I don't want your DVD players
in my home, and I don't want your encrypted DVDs in my home. Simply because they are still
_YOUR_ player and _YOUR_ discs, not mine, and I know you designed them to fuck with me. I don't
pay money just to get pissed off.
Of course, all this would change if the encryption was made public. That would mean that I could
actually _buy_ DVDs and DVD players.
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This really is great news. One step closer to a working system for rewarding producers of information. Now, all we need is a voting system so the money can be democratically distributed. Then we can forget all about this silly idea that copyright holders has, or even want to have, the ability to limit the use of their work.
Yes, of course. I totally agree.
To my defense I can say that I really tried to be as polite and civil as possible. But it isn't easy if english is not your native language, and all english you know is learned from american action movies:) Not that it matters though. If I can't express myself, that's 100% my own fault.
I'll do my best in the future to try be more polite in situations like this. And so should you - calling me an idiot goes contrary to your own post.
What word would you recommend instead?
I tried to send her this mail, but it bounced. So I sent it to hotline@mpaa.org instead:
To: hotline@mpaa.org
Subject: CSS preventing me from buying DVDs.
Hi.
I'm not sure if you are the one I should write to. It appears that you are involved with
anti-piracy, but I don't want to discuss piracy, just CSS. However, this was the only address I
could find. Feel free to forward it to whoever might be more appropriate.
I don't buy any DVDs. The reason is quite simple, I don't know how to watch them. Heck, it is
even ILLEGAL for me to know how to watch them.
Of course I could buy one of those MPAA-approved players. Or, strictly speaking, I _cannot_ buy
one. Simple because they are not for sale.
If I own something, I have the right to use it. I have the right to open it and look inside. I
have the right to modify it as I please. I have the right to fiddle with it to see how it works.
If I don't have these rights, I don't own it. Maybe even more importantly, if I own something, I
can control it. It cannot fuck with me, because if it did and I could control it, I would use
that control to stop it from fucking with me.
You cannot buy a legal DVD player. All you can do is buy the right to take it home and connect
it to your TV set.
I'm no different from most people. If something is fucking with you, you get pissed, right? I
know I do. Imagine you are driving a car, but the car had a GPS device that turned off the
engine whenever you tried to drive into certain areas, chosen at random. Unfortunately, your
home is in one of these areas, so you have to take the bus the last mile just to get home. This
would piss you off, right? I would get furious. But of course I wouldn't be angry if a car I own
stops because the engine is broken. That's not the cars fault.
See the difference? If the car is broken, OK, it's broken. If the car is not broken, but
_designed_ to fuck with me, I get mad. Of course, if I own the car that's no problem. I just rip
out the GPS device and get rid of the problem. If I cannot do that, then I don't control the
car. The car controls me.
Of course, I wouldn't expect that I have the legal right to run over people, even with a car
that I own. But what I do with my car in my own garage is strictly my business. If it isn't,
then I don't own the car.
That's the main reason I only want things in my home that I own. The ownership gives me a
guarantee that my things are not fucking with me.
Now, you might ask, why would I ever want a device in my home that I don't own and that I _know_
is designed to fuck with me? Of course I don't want it in my home. I don't want your DVD players
in my home, and I don't want your encrypted DVDs in my home. Simply because they are still
_YOUR_ player and _YOUR_ discs, not mine, and I know you designed them to fuck with me. I don't
pay money just to get pissed off.
Of course, all this would change if the encryption was made public. That would mean that I could
actually _buy_ DVDs and DVD players.