[pepsi_junkie]

Which is a good thing, since CSS is a restraint of trade (preventing viewing of DVDs from other countries) and denial of fair use (preventing excerpting and backups).

I agree. Until the movie moguls guarantee to replace at no cost my copy of a movie if it is lost or damaged, I am unsympathetic to them. They are a bunch of fools, like the music industry, who instead of seeing a technology as a brilliant new way to distribute their material with essentially no packaging or shipping costs, they see something which must be crushed. Modern day luddites.

[supercat]

Until the movie moguls guarantee to replace at no cost my copy of a movie if it is lost or damaged, I am unsympathetic to them. They are a bunch of fools, like the music industry,

In fairness to the music industry, when my copy of "Les Miserables: Original French Concept Album" got scratched and started skipping (a couple years after I bought it), I was able to get an RMA, return it, and receive a new one at no charge (other than one-way shipping for the original).