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Article #82671Re: Amazon.com users hate "Spore" DRM
From: Shawk
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:48
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 07:48
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David Alex Lamb wrote: > Shawk wrote: >> Walt's confident that no decent person would be driven to behaving >> like a criminal even if people consistently treat them as criminals >> and I'm sure he's right for a percentage of people. > > "Criminal" is a pretty loaded word. Laws have a wide range of > seriousness, and there's lots of evidence that many (maybe most) people > don't consider some of them (say, speeding laws, or jaywalking laws) to > be so serious as to be worth obeying if it's inconvenient to do so. > > It has long been clear, since at least the days of cheap photocopying > and cheap audio cassettes, that a large fraction of the public has > trouble taking copyright seriously. I can easily imagine people who > never bothered to figure out how to pirate anything suddenly getting > pissed off enough about laws they barely respect in the first place to > start downloading, just because of DRM. > > I am not trying to justify breaking any such laws. While the Pirate Bay > article may well have been trying to do so, I think many newly-minted > pirates might just be saying to themselves "f**k it, that rule is just > as silly as a 100km/hr speed limit on the 401". They might think of > their one download as pretty much equivalent to driving 105km/hr instead > of 100. That was my point David.
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