Originally Posted by Gurm

There's a Dilbert strip where the pointy-haired boss says:



And makes little air-fingers.

This entire forum is supporting fair-use, and as such we discuss areas which the MPAA/Microsoft/etc. would like us to think are "illegal" just to talk about. And in the USA they very well might be! You've participated in discussions about DVD Decrypter, and yet DVD Decrypter is completely illegal according to the DMCA - even to DISCUSS!

So please, no false moralizing here. I know your problem is the sketchy "warez" nature of these tools, but frankly the Japanese guy writing them has every right to be concerned. Lightning UK! got shut down by Macrovision, and frankly RipGuard isn't worth nearly as much as MS-DRM!

And there certainly ARE fair-use applications for this. If I buy a movie, I expect to be able to watch that movie. I do NOT expect to be told "yeah we're no longer giving out licenses for this movie", something that many people dealing with DRM have run into. "Oh, you should have watched it sooner... too bad!"

Are the movie companies justified in doing this? Maybe, according to the DMCA and their draconian interpretation of how copyright ought to work. But it's very similar to other areas we discuss here.

It's all good!