[thinkthenpost]

A windows user here, but no I don't think they are doing anything wrong. I have purchased a DVD, and short of distributing it to others without the proper royalties being paid I believe I should be able to do very nearly anything with it that I please, including playing the movie it contains on a computer running any OS I choose and if it takes a hack from someone to break the encryption that was put on the disc preventing me from watching my movie then so be it. The IP crusaders are driving folks away from what should be the most easily defended position IP owners getting paid when people use what they have created, instead artists and software developers, and moviemakers come off looking like OGRES. I still laugh at the, FIRE BAD FIRE BAD from the animated James Hatfield, Metallica's lead singer which to me personifies the RIAA, MPAA, and other strong backers of the current law, and this proposed law.

[Golden Eagle]

Yeah well if you were the original developer of DVD technology, and/or owned the patents that protect it, it might matter whether you thought people should have free access to it or not. But since you don't, nor do you appear to have developed or are ready to market any equivalent technology, why should you be allowed to use intellectual property or patented processes you have not paid to legitimately access? Because you (or they) want to?

[Golden Eagle]

Yeah well if you were the original developer of DVD technology, and/or owned the patents that protect it, it might matter whether you thought people should have free access to it or not. But since you don't, nor do you appear to have developed or are ready to market any equivalent technology, why should you be allowed to use intellectual property or patented processes you have not paid to legitimately access? Because you (or they) want to?