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Posted by Kimba W. Lion on 04/20/07 01:49
Doug Jacobs <djacobs@shell.rawbw.com> wrote:
>Take your own advice, ya? It's bloody simple to copy a DVD - even if you
>only have one drive in your PC.
You don't know the technical literacy of the general population.
I was taking issue with the contention that "everyone" would be copying
DVDs. I know nurses - plural - people responsible for the care and well
being of other people in long term care - who can't even handle "put the
yellow plug into the yellow jack" and can't figure out how to switch their
TVs over to the "Line" input. I know lawyers who wouldn't dream of trying
to copy even their own wedding DVD--if they can't get it done at some photo
counter, it won't get done.
You forget that you are far more computer literate than the average
person--posting to Usenet proves that; ask the average person what Usenet
is. Sony's idiotic copy protection scheme only hurts the majority of their
own customers and has no effect at all on piracy. Simple Macrovision takes
care of the one-button machines, and that's as far as almost everyone would
get.
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