Piracy is not just about watching things you don't own. It's also about watching things you HAVE purchased. I own a BluRay disc that I purchased new. I attempt

Piracy is not just about watching things you don't own. It's also about watching things you HAVE purchased. I own a BluRay disc that I purchased new. I attempted to watch it on our "big screen," a projector with a DVI input but no HDMI. BZZZ. The fully legal software that came with my computer won't let me watch over a non-HDMI connection, and VLC can't handle this particular BluRay disc, even with the latest patches, extra files, and instructions I can find posted online. WHY can't I watch it that way? Because some idiot executive somewhere thinks that it will make it easier to circumvent the DRM on BluRay, and therefore they screw paying customers who don't have the newest equipment. Either that or it's Sony attempting to coerce people to upgrade their equipment so they can sell more TVs. Either way it's unethical, and a technological violation of Copyright fair use rights: I should be able to consume a product however I like. I bought it, I want to watch it, and there's no technical reason I shouldn't be able to -- it's entirely a business reason, either way. I'm not talking about a right necessarily ensconced in law (IANAL), but a moral right. I should also be able to rip and remix content under fair use. And in the case of BluRay, it may be illegal Copyright law exists (in the US at least) for the benefit of the PUBLIC, not the benefit of the IP owners. Read the Constitution if you don't believe me (or this TechDirt article which provides additional support [1]); it's pretty clear and on point about why we have IP laws. At the moment the laws are written to benefit IP holders and not the public. And it's that way simply because they have better lobbyists. What did I do to watch the movie? Put it on my tiny laptop screen to watch in front of my whole family, and accumulated a bit more hatred of the MPAA and constituent companies. Piracy is illegal, but what they are doing now should be as well. And the sad truth is that, when you really hate someone, and they've harmed you, it becomes easier to justify "harming" them. Especially when the "harm" doesn't register in any but an abstract manner. [1] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120407/00171418416/yes-copyrights-sole-purpose-is-to-benefit-public.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120407/00171418416/yes-co...