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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
How is it theft?
I buy a movie from Amazon Unbox. I have it delivered to my Tivo in my living room. I get tired, I would like to go to bed and keep watching it in my bedroom. I don't finish the show before I fall asleep, I'd like to watch it on my bus ride to work and watch it to my iPod.
I would like to transfer it there like I do my normally recorded shows, but DRM locks me to the single living room machine.
If I had purchased the show on DVD, I could play it in my living room, bedroom, PC. (I'd violate copyright but) I could use a program to move it to my iPod.
I record a show on my Tivo, I can move it to my PC, bedroom, or ipod.
Before Tivo 2.0 in order to accomplish the same things, I'd have to hack the Tivo, and basically use piracy tools to accomplish all the same things.
Where is the theft?
edit:Family Guy's Blue Harvest comes with a digital copy for iTunes so that it can be played also on an ipod.
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This is like a medical marijuana argument. Sure there are obvious legitimate uses but the majority of those making this argument just want to get stoned. I'm not saying you are a pirate, from what I know of you here I'd be sort of surprised if you were a bit-torrent kind of guy, but a lot of the kids here think they pretty much deserve everything for free.
Now I do think everything is going to have to adapt to the 'new way' but that doesn't make the new way right or honest.