On 01/08/07, vijay chopra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 01/08/07, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 01/08/07, vijay chopra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I'm not advocating eye patches and peg legs here, but personally I don't > see > > > a moral difference between getting something that's available on demand > free > > > from iPlayer via other means. That could be a PVR, or it could be > getting it > > > from a torrent. > > > > The moral difference is in the restrictions. A file from the iTunes > > Music Store that you can only play with Apple's proprietary software > > is unethical, even if the copy you obtain was via bittorrent. > > > > Similarly, there are many PVRs that are restricted so you can't, for > > example, copy the files to your laptop to watch them on the train. > > DRM may be annoying, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it "unethical";
Its not ethical to restrict people from doing things that they are used to doing with equivalent technologies, that are legal to do, and things that they should be able to do in a free society. Its not merely annoying; its wrong. > secondly who buys a PVR that DRMs your recording?! My friends tell me that their Sky+ boxes are highly restrictive. > On that note, what type > of Pirate (Arrgh, me hearties) downloads DRMed Music? People are often falling foul of FairPlay DRM because they want to have more/different devices than Apple deem necessary. That's a regrettable side effect though; the people that the restrictions attack are the novice users doing friend-to-friend copying, and one of the friends in that case is 'downloading.' > If your anti-DRM targets are bittorrent and PVRs you're aiming in the > wrong direction. Savvy users will have no problem getting unrestricted files; no one is debating that (any more) - but its important to defend novice users, who are the victims here. -- Regards, Dave - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
