How, exactly, is this not fair? Many people do use cdrs and cdrws to distribute pirated music. I know that some of my friends do, and I have myself once or twice in the past (shh!) Is it fair for the music and video industry that they get no money for their products?
Really, it's not that large of a tax compared to the money that people save from pirating music instead of buying it. I think that it's not unreasonable for the music and movie industry to get 3 cents for every time a product of theirs is burned by some warez kiddie instead of being bought.
Also, maybe this will make the industries stop trying to make copy protection mandatory, if they make some money even when their products are pirated.
Although a knee jerk reaction is to express distaste for this decision, perhaps we should consider it in more depth. Like it or not, 'DVD Jon' and his work, DeCSS, do aid pirates.
Yes, that's not it was created and there are legit uses, but many people do use it to break the encryption scheme so they can rip and distribute movies. Is this necessarily what we want? If movie companies don't get paid for there work they'll stop making movies, blahda blahda.
Additionally, while this is not a popular idea around here, isn't it the companies right to decide that they only want their disks to play on windows systems? I don't see anyone saying that people should be allowed to hack popular windows only games to run on liniux, so why should movies be different?
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How, exactly, is this not fair? Many people do use cdrs and cdrws to distribute pirated music. I know that some of my friends do, and I have myself once or twice in the past (shh!) Is it fair for the music and video industry that they get no money for their products?
Really, it's not that large of a tax compared to the money that people save from pirating music instead of buying it. I think that it's not unreasonable for the music and movie industry to get 3 cents for every time a product of theirs is burned by some warez kiddie instead of being bought.
Also, maybe this will make the industries stop trying to make copy protection mandatory, if they make some money even when their products are pirated.
Yes, that's not it was created and there are legit uses, but many people do use it to break the encryption scheme so they can rip and distribute movies. Is this necessarily what we want? If movie companies don't get paid for there work they'll stop making movies, blahda blahda.
Additionally, while this is not a popular idea around here, isn't it the companies right to decide that they only want their disks to play on windows systems? I don't see anyone saying that people should be allowed to hack popular windows only games to run on liniux, so why should movies be different?