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Comment They would stop it if they could (Score 1) 490

The studios would love to stop Netflix DVD rentals too, because they don't share in the revenue from those rentals. But the law doesn't permit them to. The "decoy" answer may be the right answer for the simple reason that copyright law distinguishes between the renting of a physical thing and the renting of the information on that physical thing. That distinction doesn't make any logical sense -- it's based in history -- but it is the law.

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