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.
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