Not without installing illegal and potentially dangerous spyware without knowledge or consent. Why is this so difficult? Try reading it again. One could not make a legal copy on their computer without installing illegal and potentially dangerous spyware without knowledge or consent.
Could not make a legal copy on one's computer. Got it? Yet?
Why is it you're so bent on defending this illegal spyware?
Why is it you think it's a good thing that detecting & removing such illegal spyware should be criminalized more than it is already?
This is a case where lack of prosecutions doesn't impress me. Using that law for that purpose would've likely put a software company & perhaps even Sony BMG out of business, which is why there were no prosecutions. Sony BMG allowed their customers to violate the law.
Does that make them complicit in a crime?
I like the idea that I'm not breaking the law, since I don't do anything that would or could be considered breaking the law, to my knowledge. But had I ripped one of these CDs, I would have had to break the law in order to remove illegal & potentially dangerous spyware from my computer.
I shouldn't have to break the law to do that, yet that's exactly what was done, regardless of whether or not anyone was prosecuted for it. That's bad law. You think making it worse is somehow a good idea.
That's difficult to understand no matter how much you label people defenders of piracy in your ridiculous & seemingly increasingly desperate attempt to endorse this legislation.
Amazing that he excuses it because no one was arrested for removing it. Of course, he wants us to totally ignore the fact that someone put software on people's computers that makes them lawbreakers when they try to remove it. Arrests or not, that's inexcusable, but here he is defending it with limp-wristed excuses like "Well, it let you make a few copies", etc.
Not only that, for a guy who constantly rails against others for supposedly supporting the UN, he doesn't seem to mind so much that the DMCA is basically crafted by the UN itself. Truth is, he's a tool, and everyone here knows it.
This statement is false too. You could make a copy, if you did so before you agreed to Sony's prompt to install their software. You had to agree to that, remember? And even then you could have made legal copies.
But had I ripped one of these CDs, I would have had to break the law in order to remove illegal & potentially dangerous spyware from my computer.
Again, this is wrong. Even with the "evil" Sony rootkit, you could have "ripped" copies.