Re: [Plug] DVD software

["Nicolai Rosen" <laktar@hotmail.com>]

> > Piracy is going to happen. It happens to music, software, you name it.
> > There are certain individuals who are _never_ going to buy things.
> > Its not a lost sale. They're not loosing money. Given the choice, these
> > are people who would never have paid money to begin with.
>
> On Tue, 28 Dec 1999 "Michael W. Ryan" wrote:
> >Just because piracy is going to happen doesn't make it legal, right, or
> >acceptable.  And yes, it does cause lost sales.  Pirates do not
> >necessarily limit themselves to a personal copy.  If they can make a copy
> >for themselves, they can make a copy for others and sell it, at a cheap
> >price.  And given a digital medium, you're not going to have the
> >degradation problems that you have with VHS/tape.  So there's no motive
> >whatsoever to buy a legitimate copy.
>
>
> There's no denying that larceny is in the heart of the young -- they have 
> yet
> to work and acquire things or create and sell things, so ripping off 
> someone
> who has done either/both seems so morally proper -- "why should they have 
> what
> I don't"?
>
> There's an unsavory and unsettling parallel here: to those who would like 
> to
> spend the redistributed wealth of others and not have to earn it.
>
> Either way, the predictable result is the same: if work product cannot be
> protected by those who work, or,  if property cannot be protected by those 
> who
> acquire it, they will stop working, inventing, producing, and struggling --
> leaving the rest of us far worse off. Bravo to you, Mr. Ryan for your 
> response.
>
> Tom

Whoah! What's with the derogatory remarks here? First of all, Mental who 
you're insulting there has a job (you know those guys who provide us w/ 
meeting space?). Second, categorically saying all young people are criminals 
and immoral is despicable. Third, none of you seem to have actually read up 
on the issues at hand and are speaking out of pure ignorance. What property 
is this? Intellectual property? Such a thing does not exist. It's an 
artificial construction. And even setting that issue aside, it would cost 
more to pirate these DVDs than to buy them. Once pirated, they could only be 
stored on HDs or put on multiple DVD-RAMs. That's not exactly useful. The 
ONLY practical use for the software at issue is to play DVDs. Let me say 
that just once more so that it has a little time to sink through your aged 
skull (see, prejudice isn't very fun, now is it?):

The ONLY practical use for the software at issue is to play DVDs.

The idea that this will cause piracy is ludicrous.
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