The weird thing about the law that we ended up with is that if you receive the digital bits via a plastic circle you can do whatever you want with them includin

The weird thing about the law that we ended up with is that if you receive the digital bits via a plastic circle you can do whatever you want with them including make money off of them without giving any of it to the copyright owner. But if you receive the bits via the internet the copyright holder can get you thrown in jail if you try to hand the bits off to anybody else. It makes no sense but Hollywood outmaneuvered everybody on the lobbying in the 90s and it seems this is what we're stuck with going forward as they get their rules codified into international trade agreements that will last decades.