What the... I find this highly amusing, as copyright holders have previously argued that high quality copies are also damaging. It's a moral rights [1] issue.

What the... I find this highly amusing, as copyright holders have previously argued that high quality copies are also damaging. It's a moral rights [1] issue. While moral rights are essentially unheard of in the US (outside of the Visual Artists Rights Act), they play an important role in continental Europe with its much different theory of copyright. You may recall, for example, that Michael Ende sued to have the movie version of the Neverending Story pulled (while he lost, the judgement saw its share of criticism) and that the French courts sided with the estate of John Huston in not allowing the colorized version of Asphalt Jungle to be shown in France. Both were about the right of the author to the integrity of their work. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights