The thing is, they don't mention that. Stores don't advertise that you are pretty much siging a contract. The tiny print here does nothing. It's certainly not going to stop me from putting a movie onto my HTPC's hard drive...
At the end of the day, the average consumer thinks they are purchasing the actual disk, and could give a rats ass what some big corporation says you can do with it. People will find a way, and it's time for the MPAA to start going after the real issues, instead of screwing over the consumers with restrictive DRM and rules. I don't think it's a matter of hollywood losing money to pirating anymore. It's a matter of hollywood failing to adapt to what consumers want, and instead forcing those consumers to do what they want...
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SickNic @ Apr 17th 2007 2:30AM
The thing is, they don't mention that. Stores don't advertise that you are pretty much siging a contract. The tiny print here does nothing. It's certainly not going to stop me from putting a movie onto my HTPC's hard drive...
At the end of the day, the average consumer thinks they are purchasing the actual disk, and could give a rats ass what some big corporation says you can do with it. People will find a way, and it's time for the MPAA to start going after the real issues, instead of screwing over the consumers with restrictive DRM and rules. I don't think it's a matter of hollywood losing money to pirating anymore. It's a matter of hollywood failing to adapt to what consumers want, and instead forcing those consumers to do what they want...