What are some of the arguments FOR DRM ( digital rights management)?
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Restriction of using intelectual property. Pay again, again and again and be controlled...Loss of money is the cause. More and more money...never enough...What about humanity and democracy? What about public wealth?\n\nIs there a really right to pay for all beauty of art or intelectual wealth? More and more monopolies, more and more restrictions...Is really democratic to limit power people /often extremelly tallented/ in education, spreading culture, enjoying music, art, computing, networking...?\nOn the `contrary` - GNU/FSF/Open Source/Opensound etc.
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You can use a program like SuperDVD creator to make DVDs from movie files. \n\nThere are no legal ways to download movies without digital rights management which should prevent you from taking them off your computer.
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Legal Torrents is good.
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Limewire, Piratebay, Bitlord
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Windows uses special software to prevent you from doing that.\nThey call it Digital Rights Managment...more like restrictions.\n\ntry\nhttp://www.doom9.org/
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nothing\n\nexcept for the copyright
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if you don't want to break any rules stay away from file sharing. other than that there is a ton of free stuff and information on the net that is completely legal. also look into opes source software if you feel up to it nobody owns it and its free to use.
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Using a combo of programs (i.e. anydvd & DVD Clone or DVD shrink & nero) it is easy to make a "backup of your own property and/or DVDs” it is illegal to reproduce copyright material w/o permission\n\np.s. if your use anydvd it just runs in the background
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Hmmm, to support pirates or artists? Quite the quandary. Should one support the owners of Intellectual Property? Or the theives who have stolen it? To purchase through legal or illegal channels?\n\nI honestly have no idea what the implied second side might be.\n\nBuy originals and only originals. Purchasing pirated CDs, DVDs, bedlinen, whatever, is not only stealing from the legitimate owners of the IP, but is supporting the careers of the scum who steal it.
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Sorry, your only option is encryption at this point. However, if you go through the copyright process with the government you can claim damages for any who tamper with your data. It is difficult but doable. In the meanwhile, even with a copyright you will need to encrypt in order to keep others from tampering. Now, you can use a read only disk. Then they can read what is on it but they can not write from it to another CD. Just go in and click on Properties, then check the "read only" box. That way they can read but not write.
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The owner of the copyright decides what royalties it demands. However, I highly doubt that if you contact someone at MGM they are going to negotiate an arrangement with you to download movies on the internet. Are you trying to establish some sort of business?
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its legal to have them dvd's on your computer, aslong as you A:) don't try to share them with other people using limewire or bittorrent and b:) do not try to make copys of them other to use as backups\n\nR3dm0
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It is fine.  People are often confused about the copyright thing, because they don't know about a tricky little thing sometimes known as the "First Sale" doctrine.\n\nWhen you buy a book, you own the book.  You own that copy of the text.  You don't own the text itself.  That is why you are not permitted to reproduce the text, make the text into a movie, put it up on billboards, and so forth without violating the copyright.  Your copy, though, you can sell, lend, or rent just like you could with a lawnmower or anything else you own.  As long as you aren't making copies of your copy, you're ok.\n\nThe same thing goes for CDs and DVDs.  When you buy the CD or the DVD, you own it but not its contents.  You are allowed to sell, lend, or rent the disc; you would not be allowed to make a music video with the disc's contents.  Get it?\n\nThe one big exception would be if you were knowingly providing the books and discs to people who you know (or should know) are going to be violating the copyright by making reproductions, distributing the reproductions, and so on.  That could make you vicariously liable, meaning that you are basically responsible for the bad actions you knew might take place and for which you were paid (a rental fee, in your case).  Your rental agreement should include an agreement by the renter to obey all relevant laws, including copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws.  If you cover that gap, you should be good to go.
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I download and share with anyone who wants it. I don't make money off of it. Am I breaking the law? I do the same thing with movies. Music and movies cost way to much to buy from the stores. Blank discs are cheap. When will big companies wake up and realize it is time to lower the costs?
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not really. limewire's the number one choice for music files, documents, and movies but when it comes to downloading softwares or games, bittorrent sites are much more useful
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This sounds like a homework question...\n\nBut copyright is established to promote intellectual and technological innovations. If a process can easily be copied (say Microsoft Windows), nobody will be willing to pay the R&D cost initially. Copyright gives people an incentive to come up with new ideas that push technology forward.
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only if you don't download copyrighted material (basically any song that comes out on an album).\nAt least they don't use that DRM garbage.  I buy it legally, but i'm telling you, if DRM gets too bad i'll stop buying from them.\n\n\nPS.  It's limewire and bearshare, not livewire and beershare