Comment Re:What they are afraid of (Score 1) 212
You do not have an understanding of copyright law.
Because the primary use of said product is legal, it doesn't mean that those uses must be restricted^H^H^H disallowed just because there are illegal applications for the product. This is both intuitively obvious and has been proven in court, eg. I can illegally xerox an entire book, but this doesn't stop others from legally using photo copiers.
What the DVD pigs are trying to do is to leverage their license (contract law) to force the vendor to stop doing this. Unfortunately, future licensees of the DVD license will have a clause added to handle this case and we will never see a consumer version of this device.
Because the primary use of said product is legal, it doesn't mean that those uses must be restricted^H^H^H disallowed just because there are illegal applications for the product. This is both intuitively obvious and has been proven in court, eg. I can illegally xerox an entire book, but this doesn't stop others from legally using photo copiers.
What the DVD pigs are trying to do is to leverage their license (contract law) to force the vendor to stop doing this. Unfortunately, future licensees of the DVD license will have a clause added to handle this case and we will never see a consumer version of this device.
