[savedbygrace]

That’s why I opened with “Ut, oh.”

I am not in favor of breaking the law, but breaking this one is stealing income from the pockets of not just the wealthy Hollyweirdos, but some folks with far lesser income levels.

And stealing is stealing. However, current copyright law does go way too far. That doesn’t excuse breaking it, but . . . .

[hoosierham]

Bad laws provoke good people.

[zeugma]

However, current copyright law does go way too far. That doesn’t excuse breaking it, but . . . .

I disagree. The only way to demonstrate our utter contempt for the law is to ignore it.

Besides, breaking their crappy copy protection is not just a tool to make copies of disks. Those of us in the Linux world need to use these tools just to watch DVDs on our computers.

[antiRepublicrat]

However, current copyright law does go way too far. That doesn’t excuse breaking it, but .

This only violates copyright law insofar as current law, as purchased by the copyright cartel, makes circumventing this encryption illegal regardless of an otherwise legal reason to circumvent it.

And stealing is stealing.

Unless you're hauling a DVD or Blu-ray out of a store under your coat, you're not stealing, you're committing copyright infringement. It's a big difference regardless of what the copyright cartel and its government enforcers want you to think.