I am but one person of this slashdot group, and I do not think it is ok to "get free stuff" but do you think it is ok for copyright terms to be as long as they are now given the technology we have today to easily duplicate and distribute?

Why worry about the legality of this, that is just bitching about who is right and wrong. We should make it so stuff like this is clearly legal. Copyright reform is needed.

I read some of the comments on the youtube link for the trailer and more than one person was saying how they loved reading LotR grade school, clearly a long time ago. Our present situation makes me sad.

No confidience in airport security? How would a potential terrorist take over a large commercial plane post 9/11?

WHY? because it is apparently against the law. If you don't like it, then maybe the law should be changed.

If they lose, I hope it shows normal people how wrong the law is and that it should be changed.

So what is or who are the United States? Its' citizens or the government? or both or something else?

What is war?

Who are United States' enemies?

How is that different from using trackerless torrents and getting the hash info from the web that google indexes?

>Would you, as the company selling this game, want to deny your customers access to the server because somebody else broke the rules?

Exactly, so why piss off paying customers with DRM when non-paying cutomers are breaking the rules? (this hypothetical question is not directed at Demigod producers)

I can play this word game too. Let's replace buying music (or any other digital information) with getting rapped.

Technology has made reproducing digital information cost almost nothing, yet we get to pay the same price for music as when they cost a lot more to reproduce.

The past: Technology has created the horseless carrige. Physical items are moved around more effieciently. Horseshoe repairmen are out of jobs

The present: Technology has created the digital age. Information is reproduced and spread about more efficiently. The middlemen who use to reproduce (making records/cds) and spread (market and distribute) this information are losing their jobs.

The furture: Technology has created a device that clones physical items like food. Physical items are reproduced more efficiently. If the present is any indication, the people who use to create these physical items will be trying to use the law to prevent society from freely reproducing these physical items.

I agree copyright is a good thing for society, but technology has made its current length unreasonable

What right do you (the hypothetical you) have to use the full force of the government to protect and benifit a few (the "content" owners). Copyright is suppose to benifit the whole of society. With today's technology to easily reproduce audio and visual works, current copyright terms are bullshit.

You talk about freedom and convienience regarding dvd playback. The inconvienience isnt any technical problem, it is a legal problem. If you want that fixed, laws have to be changed. With linux, you have the freedom to ignore the law and compile and use a media player capable of playing encrypted dvds.

Freedom isnt free.

Do you want a choice in what your software does and how it interacts with your data? With open source, you have the freedom to invest your time to change to to your specifications or invest some money to hire someone else to do the changes for you.

With non opensource software, you have to take what the developers give you. Your voice or opinion does not matter to the developers in a sea of other voices.