Shoutbox

DRM and other similar copy protections came to live only because there were too many illegal copies being seld and put for download, etc. Not because the average Joe made a copy to protect the original.... That's my point.

If people continue to copy stuff to give away, put for download, etc, it is only very normal that the 'industry' will come up with something else because the original authors _do_ loose money over it (despite all hard fairytails and myths floating around (mostly on the net... obviously))...

Then you can again complain 'they' punish the average Joe. Complain to those who make illegal copies instead I'd say.

I'm not mad at all at the 'industry' for having copy protections, even not when I want to make a copy of the original for safe keeping. If I would be mad I would be mad at the people who think copying something from someone else isn't harmfull or isn't stealing money from the original author.

EDIT: "Words aren't cold yet" like they say, and I already came across a thread again on these forums regarding illegal exchange/copying stuff.... That is what I mean...