Velothi

"Companies are much less concerned with the actual physical loss then they are with the loss of revenue. A DVD takes a few cents to make and ship, I doubt they care so much about the loss of a few cents in cost as they are the loss of the retail price." I'm sure they're concerned that I'm not giving them money. No idea why I would care about that. I still haven't taken anything from them, so it isn't stealing. If I infringe their monopoly on distributing some piece of information (or do

Arg post got eaten :( The obvious difference is stealing deprives the owned of the object, infringement does not. Governments seem to understand they're different things, that's why copyright infringement isn't a criminal offense (in almost all countries anyway). If you think they're just as bad that's fine, but they're not the same thing. "Now, disagreeing with a law isn't the same as disobeying it. I disagree with laws that say I cannot purchase a handgun outside of my state

[quote]Oh and not everyone is "rationalizing", some people in the world do actually have principles :/ Admittedly most don't seem to though.If you are talking about those who pirate, then those who do not rationalize are those who openly admit that they are stealing, in which case their principles are already somewhat dubious.[/quote] Copyright infringement is completely different to stealing, I really don't understand why people try to equate them. OK that's not true I understand smear

Oh and not everyone is "rationalising", some people in the world do actually have principles :/ Admittedly most don't seem to though.

If such tag-team DRM would work, why hasn't it been done? (honest question) For software, how on earth would Windows(or whatever is determining this) decide whether software is legit or not? I can't think of how, though admittedly I don't know much about programming. For video, surely no matter what protections they put on DVD/Blu-ray etc, someone will figure out how to turn the picture into an MPEG? Worst case they video the thing :p Second, it seems there is a danger