This is from an earlier post I made, however, I haven't seen feedback on this part (which was buried in the earlier post).

Read it and let me know what you think.....

http://action.eff.org/action/index.asp

(Excerpt):

Senator Ernest Hollings and a powerful group of Hollywood entertainment interests are pushing congress to pass an anti-consumer bill called the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA) that may make it impossible to:

-Play your CDs on your desktop computer
-Create legal copies or mp3s of the music that you own to play in your car, or listen to while you exercise
-Create mix-CDs of music you've paid for

 

PLAYING CD tracks through the analog outputs, then RERECORDING them digitally would not be prevented. Difference in quality would be practically unnoticable.

 

all these government attempts are futile. There's really no way they can stop any of this. I mean, look at all the pirated VCD's of "in theater" movies there are out there. And that whole thing with Napster?? More people are downloading music from the net now than ever before!

The minute the government tries to forbid anything, someone is out there finding a way around it and yet another person is perfecting whatever that person came up with.

 

It is completely pointless. These industries are going to kill themselves in their attempt to fight an enemy (the consumer) they both need and despise.

The more layers of bullshit the RIAA puts around its products, the less people will be willing to pay for those products. The RIAA had a chance, a while ago, to grow up and realize that times have changed. They truthfully only have two choices: 1) evolve their business model 2) die slowly while trying to hold onto their piece of blue sky.

The truly ironic part of all of this is that CD sales and movie ticket sales haven't been significantly hurt by the Internet -- they've continued to grow at normal rates.

We live in a democracy. If the majority of Americans feel it should be legal to download music from the Internet, then by definition it is legal. The RIAA is wasting itself away lobbying for stifling legislation, when Americans aren't going to respect any such laws anyway.

I'd like to see the RIAA fatcats come into my bedroom and disable my computer's CD-ROM.

- Warren

 

the futility can be summed up in three letters:

V-C-R.

Q.E.D.

 

Now Josh,

What the hell does Quantum Electrodynamics have to do with the ethics of stealing music?

- Warren

 

do I have to spell out everything for you?

quod erat demonstrandum

 

I was just joshin' ya. Get it? Joshin'.

- Warren

 

so funny I forgot to laugh.

 

All of this copy protection stuff doesn't matterat all. When I used to work at DIRECTV, we had a saying, what one smart group if engineers can make, another smart group of engineers can undo. No copy protection scheme is unhackable.