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It is a three fold discrimination: First, it discriminates against other browsers (preferring only Internet Explorer which isn't available on all platforms). Secondly it discriminates against certain operating systems, and lastly it discriminates against certain people.
Since their entire base of logic is to show that they are not trying to discriminate against anyone. (Especially the criminalized customer who is going to steal every movie ever produced anyway.) It is a poor basis to start from and will certainly hurt their customer base.
You can not beat a horse half to death and then expect it to come anywhere near you. The same is true of MovieLink.
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All this does is create a demand for illegal content on these excluded platforms. What will happen is that there will be no legitimate means to get to this content and people will bootleg it because there are no legal alternatives.
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by
Anonymous Coward
on Wednesday November 20, @11:56PM (#469)
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Movielink rightly denies its service to platforms that do not incorporate Digital Rights Management controls. Without such controls, online pirates will take advantage of the service, while violating the rights of copyright owners. Mac users, therefore, should complain about Apple's refusal to adopt copy protection strategies, rather than about a movie industry that is willing to explore new business models.
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Let me guess, you're not a GNU/Linux user are you?
It's easy to make your argument when you're not in a position of having to resort to illegimate means to play DVDs you've bought on DVD hardware you own.
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Digital Rights Management will not work to keep people from obtaining anything. Over the net or store bought. As I keep saying: Everything has to start somewhere. This fact alone means that you can never prevent copying. Legal or otherwise. All you are doing is criminalizing everyone by starting out saying they are guilty before proof of guilt has been established. (Please note that you can copy a DVD disk without decrypting it yet the industry wants to make it a crime to create a back-up copy although this is clearly not a violation of section 1201(a).)
I do agree that some method needs to be determined/created/obtained which will strike a balance between the needs of the merchants and the needs of the congregation...er...customers. DRM is not being preached from the pulpit as a remedy but rather as a means of hellfire and brimstone...er...control for the merchants. However, as someone who was there when software companies attempted to produce the perfect copyprotected disk and failed utterly I believe I can accurately state that no matter what someone comes up with - someone else will find a way to get around it. (Please note the many Warz newsgroups and sites around the world which have featured such "secure" methods as dongle get-arounds, event trappers technology, black boxes escapades, and even just plain old password circumvention.)
The idea should be to not offend their customers but to prosecute those who flaunt the laws excessively. This type of attack would not only have the backing of the people but would not have needed the complete revamping of the pre-existing copyright laws. Instead, minor changes could have been leveraged for stronger enforcement without all of the heavy handed tactics currently in use.
This is, of course, IMHO. :-)
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