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Originally Posted by Barnes
Sure sounds good. So a fine of $20,000 for paying for and breaching the agreement (for which I have no idea about because no one tells you and was unable to read unless I buy the product) or $500 for just outright stealing it?
I know where the value is.
There is no DRM on music CDs so they can be format shifted. For digital content, $.99 is too expensive and the industry is doing all they can to increase those prices by forcing you to buy full albums or by using variable pricing.
The whole thing, including the FCC's recent decision to allow content providers to lock down your cable box and instruct it to not record first run movies and TV shows at their discretion will only serve to make people like me turn even further to the black and gray markets. This crap only hurts people like my parents and those people who pay their cable bill, buy movies etc.
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I'm not sure I really agree with a lot of what I said. I think I would be okay with a world where all the digital locks and DRM are allowed but access to the content is priced accordingly. Fair price, to me, in that world is expressed in pennies not dollars.