Overstatement of entertainment industry view
Overstatement of entertainment industry view
Posted May 3, 2003 2:13 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (guest, #1954)Parent article: The legality of file sharing services
I think it's a little unfair to say the entertainment industry opposes DECSS and the Elcomsoft product because they can be used to violate copyrights. If that were the case, the industry would also oppose ftp. I think the industry wants those products to be illegal because they can be used to defeat a copy protection mechanism.
I think the industry's opposition to file sharing networks comes from an unrelated place, and applies only to networks that not only can be used to violate copyrights but are in fact widely used to do so.
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