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RE: Digg?
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Originally posted by CookieRevised
I do not see how trying to protect someone's income/property is wrong.
Me neither. Except when they start using tactics which prevent us even watching the DVD I bought with our own money on our own computer or DVD player. There are a couple of protections that are so mangled and illegal (spec wise) that DVD players and computers choke.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
And it starts with the 'little guys', namely you and me. How many of the people using mIRC actually payed for it for example?
This is a completely different circumstance. People make cracks and keygens so that users do not have to pay for the program. Now, people make programs designed to remove the protection on their DVDs so they can back them up and do what they feel to them.

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It are those 'little guys' who copy and distribute stuff thinking they do nothing wrong, yet it are those very same 'little guys' who complain when a company is trying todo something against it...
We have a right to backup our DVDs. We have a right to change whatever we want with them. I remove all the ads and crap from my backups. We also have a right to watch the movie I bought on anything in my house.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
If you want to do something against it or stand up against it, you should start by standing up against your friends and those other 'little guys' who copy stuff, use serialz, warez, cracks, etc.

If you stop copying, using serials, cracks, etc, the 'big companies' wouldn't have any reason to try to prevent illegal distribution...
You're going to tell me they would stop putting on protections once pirating DVDs ceased? Tell me another one 8-). One of the benifits of removing the protection on a HD DVD is that you can watch it on a monitor and video card which is not HDCP compatible. Otherwise you would have to go and buy a new monitor and card just to watch the movies on your computer. And that would cost a bit, especially after just having bought a HD DVD reader.

In short, the way these companies treat its customers is absurd. Not everyone goes around stealing just because they can. Long live copy protection removal I say. It fills in the holes which the company cannot forfill.

This post was edited on 05-07-2007 at 12:23 PM by linx05.
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Digg? - by ipab on 05-02-2007 at 05:16 AM
RE: Digg? - by Vilkku on 05-02-2007 at 05:49 AM
RE: Digg? - by ipab on 05-02-2007 at 05:53 AM
RE: Digg? - by WDZ on 05-02-2007 at 06:02 AM
RE: Digg? - by Menthix on 05-02-2007 at 12:43 PM
RE: Digg? - by linx05 on 05-02-2007 at 02:24 PM
RE: Digg? - by Joe on 05-02-2007 at 02:43 PM
RE: Digg? - by linx05 on 05-02-2007 at 03:14 PM
RE: Digg? - by absorbation on 05-02-2007 at 05:19 PM
RE: Digg? - by Verte on 05-03-2007 at 03:05 PM
RE: Digg? - by CookieRevised on 05-03-2007 at 03:38 PM
RE: RE: Digg? - by Verte on 05-03-2007 at 04:02 PM
RE: Digg? - by Dr4g0n on 05-03-2007 at 04:29 PM
RE: Digg? - by CookieRevised on 05-03-2007 at 10:38 PM
RE: Digg? - by linx05 on 05-05-2007 at 09:03 AM
RE: Digg? - by CookieRevised on 05-05-2007 at 10:26 AM
RE: Digg? - by Jhrono on 05-05-2007 at 10:30 AM
RE: Digg? - by Verte on 05-05-2007 at 03:18 PM
RE: Digg? - by L. Coyote on 05-05-2007 at 03:46 PM
RE: Digg? - by absorbation on 05-05-2007 at 04:20 PM
RE: Digg? - by linx05 on 05-06-2007 at 09:43 AM
RE: RE: Digg? - by CookieRevised on 05-06-2007 at 01:20 PM
RE: Digg? - by Volv on 05-06-2007 at 01:23 PM
RE: Digg? - by CookieRevised on 05-06-2007 at 01:34 PM
RE: Digg? - by Verte on 05-06-2007 at 03:33 PM
RE: Digg? - by linx05 on 05-07-2007 at 06:49 AM
RE: Digg? - by CookieRevised on 05-07-2007 at 08:37 AM
RE: Digg? - by linx05 on 05-07-2007 at 11:30 AM
RE: Digg? - by John Anderton on 05-07-2007 at 11:41 AM
RE: Digg? - by Underlord on 05-07-2007 at 11:43 AM
RE: RE: Digg? - by Verte on 05-07-2007 at 05:54 PM
RE: RE: RE: Digg? - by CookieRevised on 05-07-2007 at 08:05 PM
RE: RE: RE: RE: Digg? - by linx05 on 05-09-2007 at 02:33 PM
RE: Digg? - by Dr4g0n on 05-07-2007 at 08:16 PM
RE: Digg? - by Underlord on 05-09-2007 at 11:44 PM
RE: Digg? - by ShawnZ on 05-10-2007 at 12:52 AM


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