I was responding to your claim the Sony rootkit didn't allow for "legal" copies, such as a backup. From what I understand, it did.
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.