Originally Posted by gideongallery

bullshit i can use a vcr to record television shows. If you bought a betamax machine it came with 2 1 hour tapes. So you had everything out of the box to record content (which the copyright holders argued was infringement).




and you can download something that the copyright holder authorized (like dan bull sharing is caring)

or that is legal for you to download becuase you live in a country that doesn't have anti caming laws

or who has ruled that violating geographic restrictions is fair dealings (like canada)

or has recognized access shifting ..

or who has recognized the right to use the swarm as a vcr.

the exact same content could be infringing and non infringing at the same time. and geo restrictions



and what exactly did the sony do to block illegal copying

nothing they just provided the service to the

the content industry invented encoding schema that required added coruption data into the system when copied without a special copying machine.

They handed the vcr the encoding techology for playing only.

They did the work of finding the solution to the problem

The vcr did absolutely nothing to block access too.

it your fucking content, if you want it blocked develop the technology that can do it.

don't destroy the medium for all the people who want to use it.