> Invoking a Fair Use defense is both an admission of breaking the law and a claim that your civil liability or criminal culpability should be limited given the circumstances. Fair Use does not give you a right to violate copyrights any more than being insane gives you a right to commit homicide.

What the HELL are you talking about? You don't break copyright law if you use a copyrighted work in a manner that qualifies as fair use; that's the whole -point- of the exceptions. Your liability with regards to the use should be absolutely zero, not "limited." And fair use DOES give you the right to circumvent copyright law in certain circumstances. Again, that's the whole point of having fair use exemptions in the first place.

> The plastic disc is yours, fully and completely. The copyright on the content is not. You have no inherent right to copy that content, even from one medium in your possession to another.

According to the MPAA, when I bought the DVD I purchased a license to play the content on the disc. Referring to backup copies, if the medium itself became damaged or lost, that should not invalidate my license to watch the movie. Unless it was only a license to watch the movie from that specific disc, but no such terms and conditions were presented to me when I bought the DVD.

> When someone sells you a movie they have created, they can sell it to you
> with any encryption and any restrictions that they damn well please. That is
> their right as the creator of the work. If you don't agree with their terms,
> then you have the right to not purchase it. In no way do you ever get the
> right to demand that an artist or distributor give you their work in a certain way.

Sure, we don't get to demand that a copyright holder provide a work in a certain way. Flip a bit, and that copyright holder gets very little control of the work post-sale aside from copyright-related actions such as unauthorized distribution. If I want to crack the encryption on my Blu-rays or DVDs or PS3 games or whatever and drop them onto a hard drive, I have the right to do so. (Don't tell me about the DMCA; cracking copy protection itself is not copyright infringement and should absolutely not be illegal.)

> You may not like it, but the law is 100% clear: It is a violation of the DMCA to circumvent any copy-protection schemes.
Then that makes the DMCA an unjust law. It is therefore a citizen's moral duty to ignore it.

> but the manufacturers also have the "right" to put encryption on media.
Cool. We have the right to try to break it, and to succeed.

Where is there any indication that "pirates" were behind the leak of this master key?

> I dont want made you associate Family with Censorship.
It's not the GP's fault. Just think of the wide usage of the term "family-friendly" to mean "hostile to anything that could potentially offend someone."

I don't see why he got modded Troll.

So says Ars Technica, anyway. I don't know much about the market for mobile Internet, but $40 per gigabyte sounds unbelievable. I'm just passing on what I've read.

Note the following two statements:

> Microsoft sucks cock. Their shitty fucking proprietary software makes you a slave to their corporate religion. Only the truly free and enlightened throw off the chains of M$ and embrace the pure open power of GNU/Linux. If you use Micro$oft Winblows, congratulations because you've proven to the world that you're a faggish corporate whore.

> LOL @ Linux. The OS of filthy freetard communist hippies who can't afford anything that actually works. Here's an idea, since you're incapable of forming your own: Move out of your mom's basement, shave your beard, and get a fucking job. Grow up and pay for what you use. Get back on Windows like everyone else.

They are different in that one is anti-Microsoft and one is anti-Linux. More importantly, they are the same because although both of them express an opinion which others might strongly disagree on, they do so in an inflammatory manner that doesn't add anything valuable to the thread. The posts are, essentially, a waste of bandwidth.

Your post is much the same, hence the troll mod.

> The terms upon which the music was provided to you did not allow for this, so you should have no expectation that it would be allowed.
I was not subjected to terms and conditions the last time I bought a CD in Borders.

> No other personal possessions offer such a compensatory provision
No other personal possessions are infinitely copyable like music is.

> Nobody has a God-given right to media. If you like a piece of media, obtain and use it in a way sanctioned by the media producer.
Your post carries the premise that the media producer has a God-given right to control their media after the sale. This premise is not self-evident and must be adequately supported before it can be stated that people should not be able to download things for free.

> Software companies imposing restrictions on customers through licensing agreements helps them perform price discrimination, which often benefits customers
Software companies imposing restrictions on customers through licensing agreements take away fair use and right of first sale, both of which hurt customers far more than price discrimination could ever help them.

> What to learn from this? Don't agree to this sort of licence.
In the case of consumer software, people often don't have much choice. The EULA is presented to them after the purchase and after they've already opened the package to install the software. Naturally, vendors and resellers won't accept opened software packages or refund them, so that customer can either accept the EULA or be the proud owner of a new shiny frisbee.

This was a decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal, specifically. With any luck whatsoever, this unacceptable ruling will be overturned by the Supreme Court. The 9th Circuit is apparently the most overturned court in the country, so hopefully this won't stand for long.

> But apparantly all the 12 year olds with Ubuntu has mod points today, and I probably offended their religion.
You really can't understand why you're getting modded down? That comment is essentially a troll.

Bollywood is bigger in its region than Hollywood is in the US. Not so much in the US, though.