>Also, most people would be happy to pay the actors and crew a very healthy wage but baulk at paying to add DRM and several layers of executives whose function

>Also, most people would be happy to pay the actors and crew a very healthy wage but baulk at paying to add DRM and several layers of executives whose function appears to be to make it as hard as possible to actually watch the content without paying again and again and who extract far more than their share of the revenue. Sure, all of the people torrenting are really just protesting as the unjust profits made by studio executives. This is laughable. >The family in question used a hacked Wii to watch DVDs, but the DRM prevented half of them from working. And a perfectly functional DVD player is like $20. =============================== Rate-limited by HackerNews, but in response to the below: =============================== >What's your second point? That just because it only costs a week's groceries to buy a DVD player it was wrong to torrent a work that has been paid for and only can't be consumed due to DRM? Do you find that use immoral? Copyright becomes unenforceable if you can just go buy a physical DVD with cash whenever you get sued or warned for pirating something.