I didn't realize that the re-selling, or giving away of, original old videos (regardless of format) or music (again regardless of format) was illegal. If that is indeed the case please let me know, with the appropriate links, of my error in thinking.

This would be more to your point, rather than making *illegal* copies of software/videos/music (regardless of format) and making those available, even for free.

Just my thoughts,
MMYoung

Remember that BlueRAY is from the same company that brought you the Sony Root Kit on CD's and came out with an mp3 player who's software would seek all mp3's on your hard drive and encrypt them, even mp3's you produced and own yourself.

I have lost any interest in music after they arrested an 80 year old blind man for playing a Beetles song on his harmonica. I don't have an interest in purchasing an HD TV or Blueray player. I use my stereo's video switch which can't work with HD. Also, a 16x9 format screen would have to be very small to fit into my entertainment center.

Consider the early adopters of HD television sets and receivers. Their equipment came out before HDMI cabling was introduced.

One problem - most people don't care about all this. They either pirate or buy stuff. As for DRM - the only problem is getting decryption key, eventually it will be solved.

There is nice quotation: "stealing removes original, piracy makes copy. Piracy is not stealing. It is piracy". Laws for material goods doesn't work for information which can be copied. EVentually all this will be sorted out (and piracy will become legal but paid for), but this didn't happen yet.

It isn't, because you transfer all your rights with physical medium.

Watch the date when you reply.

You are looking at picture from the wrong point. Multi-media industry could benefit from piracy instead of fighting it.
FYI many people that pirate software/music/videos decide to buy it after using if they like it. I'm talking about sane mature people, not about teenage download junkies or people scared to hell by RIAA. They buy because they want their favorite software/film/music "materialized". And pirated copy isn't equal to lost sale. Person that didn't like downloaded software and deleted it wouldn't buy it anyway. Piracy also works like a good advertising - stuff moves quickly, becomes distributed and well-known quickly and all this with zero cost. So piracy should be used to industry's advantage instead of trying to kill it (which is impossible anyway). I think you might want to read "Pirate's Dilemma". That book has a lot of "water" inside, but still might give you few insights.

I think you are simply nostalgic about "old days". And to my taste "being a brilliant artist" and "having a big name" are very diferrent things, because average person will like average music. And record companies probably know this.

Most people that download stuff don't post comments. And most people that do post comments, do it because they are newbies and just found out that you can download stuff from internet, or because they want to be cool or something. Don't be fooled by loudest 1% of users. Typical comments indicate only "like"/"don't like", nothing more. It's not about customer satisfaction, or "I won't buy it".

Piracy is here, and it cannot be destroyed. Industry's attempts to kill it make customers suffer instead. So I think they will try something different eventually.

Loud words and "all cap"(use italic, bold or underlined font instead) are a bit annoying. Stuff about "Freedom" and "free thinkers" sounds nice at first, but it becomes annoying 6 months later. You already have choice - to buy stuff or pirate it (with all consequences). Personally, I think about piracy as of "demo-versions" - you try product, if you don't like it, you delete it. If you like it - you purchase it, and I don't see any problem here. What is interesting, it is what recommended by most groups that develop cracks. Another funny thing is that some groups that develop cracks hate people that put them onto p2p networks. An example:
Because this doesn't create new books. You are confusing reselling with copying. If bookshop will start printing millions of copies of books and giving them away for free, then situation will quickly change.

Someone said "if you can hear it, you can copy it".
Now this nicely illustrates why there is piracy. Music, software and video aren't material, and can be easily copied. The laws that were used by record industry for a long time were applicable to a medium used for printing books, disks etc. And right now those don't look reasonable for pure information.

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I can go round the corner to my local video store rent a New Release Bluray movie ($2.20AU overnight) and take it home, I can put it in my computer that I paid money for, that runs Windoze that I paid money for, and attempt to play play it with software that I paid money for, software designed for the purpose of playing Bluray discs, AND YET THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT THE DISC WILL ACTUALLY PLAY ! ! ! !

It's wrong, it's that simple.

The farting around needed to even try and play it on my Linux PC is beyond acceptable.

It's wrong, it's that simple!

Now you know why I don't buy Bluray movies.
Now you know why I have extra software capable of removing the encryption from Bluray discs.
I'm not a thief or a pirate I simply want to USE WHAT I PAID FOR !!!!

It's wrong, it's that simple!

DRM F**K you and all that support you !!!

i find it wrong that they are punishing the common man. the vast majority of people can't be ---ed to learn how to copy media from cd's and dvd's and blu-ray, and those of us are want to copy it will find a way ANYWAYS, all the large companies are doing is buying some time, and in very limited quantities. but by god, when i buy a movie i want to be able to take it, copy it to my computer, and stream it to my xbox because my TV's dvd player is broken! and i refuse to go spend money on a blu-ray player or an external dvd player when my computer can do it all. why should i? i already PAID for a blu-ray player and a dvd player! my computer! and i borrow cd's and dvd's from my friends to view/listen to them. if i like it, i go out and *buy* it. if i don't, i just return it.
it's like when home recording came out with tape recorders and vcr's and such. in the end, guess what, the industries are still here. they're too large to truely suffer unless it became 100% legal. but i firmly believe that if i go out and buy something like a blu-ray i should be able to do with it as i please, seeing as i went out and paid good money for the physical medium.

i rip dvd's to my computer
i rip cd's to my computer
i create digital backups of dvd's, including games, for WHEN the disk is ruined by fog/fading or scratches (it's not an IF in my house)
does this make me a pirate?