[Daryl Herbert @ May 17th 2007 5:35AM]

"This is how the trend will continue and wrong or right AACS won't be stopping anyone"

If having AnyDVD on your computer was a crime for which your computer would be seized and you'd spend 1 year in jail, I think AACS would work just fine at stopping almost everyone.

The reason DRM is failing now is that it costs nothing to attempt to circumvent it, so of course people will continue to do that.

If it wasn't a crime to try to sneak a bomb onto an airplane, and 10,000 Americans tried to do it every day, we would have planes exploding on a weekly basis. That doesn't mean it's foolish to have metal detectors in airports.

Don't misinterpret me, I don't want harsh laws, I'm just pointing out that they're a real possibility, and that they would keep DRM alive and well.

[mookle @ May 17th 2007 8:01AM]

Jesus Christ.
Just... just shut up. You're just wrong. *Sigh*

[andy @ May 17th 2007 9:20AM]

Go watch the FBI warning at the beginning of a movie some day.


Your ignorance of the law is mind boggling.

[Tim Cowlishaw @ May 17th 2007 9:54AM]

"If having AnyDVD on your computer was a crime for which your computer would be seized and you'd spend 1 year in jail, I think AACS would work just fine at stopping almost everyone.

The reason DRM is failing now is that it costs nothing to attempt to circumvent it, so of course people will continue to do that."

erm... it is a criminal act, in the US at least. The DMCA makes it illegal to circumvent any DRM system (with no fair use exceptions), and AFAIK, to make or posess the tools to do so. Not sure whether it's a 1 year jail sentance or not, but it is most definately a criminal act.

Of course, as the digg debacle the othe week suggested, is that this section of the DMCA is pretty much unenforcable an any notable scale. That's the importance of this sort of mass civil disobediance, it shows what a ridiculous and unworkable law the DMCA is.

Cheers,

Tim

I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice.

[Rick Dillon @ May 18th 2007 12:32AM]

Yeah - you don't seem to get it Daryl. We are in a worldwide community right now. Sure, the US can continue passing the backwards laws bought and paid for by the **AA, but that doesn't change anything in the EU where the DMCA doesn't exist and P2P sharing is legal for personal use.

The US has two choices: it can continue a futile fight which logically ends when we do what China is doing and create our own internet (walling out the rest of the world), OR we can wise up and take steps to update an outdated business model that relies on restricting what people can do with media they buy. The media companies need to be selling an experience, rather than a product. As long as they fail to see that, they will continue to lose the war.