CWSmonitor.com has an article on the current digital copying rules, who are becoming more and more strict. This all because the entertaiment industry is afraid it will loose money because people don't want to buy their products anymore but instead download it from the internet.
The industry doesn't look at their current sales figures who are still very good and certainly don't look at gaining goodwill from their costumers. All they are after is your money, but they way there are chasing the money becomes more and more childish:
New regulations being discussed significantly erase fair-use rights in the name of piracy prevention. Ultimately, the entertainment industry hopes to charge consumers for what they now do free of charge. |
"The only way they can charge you, they realized, is to first take away your legal right, and then sell that right back to you," says Joe Kraus, president of DigitalConsumer.org, an advocacy group in Washington, D.C.
If certain antipiracy measures pass in Washington, Mr. Kraus says consumers may have to pay extra to play a CD in more than one player; be no longer able to transfer music from a CD to an MP3 player; and be unable to watch a program recorded onto a DVD on a separate machine.
Allowing consumers access to media, but restricting them from adapting it is similar to teaching people to read but not allowing them to write, says Clay Shirky, a professor at New York University. "To say we must make a device that does not do one of those functions is saying that the device is no longer a computer any more," says Mr. Shirky.
Read the entire article here. It's just another article on the same subject we discuss here almost everyday...
Source: CWSmonitor.com
