The movie and music industries want the purchase of a DVD or a CD to be treated as a product. You can use the product as-is, but have no further rights to it. Consumer advocacy groups want the purchase of a CD or a DVD to be treated more like a license. You can make personal copies, so you can listen in the car, or on a portable device, but you just can’t start selling copies to friends or distributing them freely.
How about a law that says that DVDs or CDs that have worn out must be replaced for cost? As it is now, you’re out of luck unless you were smart enough to make an illegal backup.
Mark J - 09:05pm on 05/10/2004
That’s an interesting suggestion Mark, but wouldn’t that be somewhat cost prohibitive for the recording industry?
The movie and music industries want the purchase of a DVD or a CD to be treated as a product. You can use the product as-is, but have no further rights to it. Consumer advocacy groups want the purchase of a CD or a DVD to be treated more like a license. You can make personal copies, so you can listen in the car, or on a portable device, but you just can’t start selling copies to friends or distributing them freely.
How about a law that says that DVDs or CDs that have worn out must be replaced for cost? As it is now, you’re out of luck unless you were smart enough to make an illegal backup.
That’s an interesting suggestion Mark, but wouldn’t that be somewhat cost prohibitive for the recording industry?