In a message dated 07.Mar.05 23:54:58 US Mountain Standard Time, PLUGd@LuftHans.com writes:

broadcast flag really only stops consumers.

If they were concerned with mass violation they would put their efforts
there rather than going after law-abiding customers

I expect they see the widescale pirates as a loss anyway. many work overseas, and will the fine for fixing a broken DVD recorder to work as expected be a concern to people who don't fear the fines for copyright infringement?

I expect they realise it's inevitable people dislike artifical scarcity, so it's a matter of keeping it in place as long as possible, in as many ways as possible. Also mindshare's a concern: when people see things like the Betamax precedent, and the fact that a $400 copy of photoshop really only has 60 cents of materials in it, it makes the mental wall of copyright weaker.