DMCA laws damage the economy, help create a police state, and are unnecessary. The fact that format shifting DVD's is illegal harms the billion dollar market f

DMCA laws damage the economy, help create a police state, and are unnecessary. The fact that format shifting DVD's is illegal harms the billion dollar market for digital video products. If format shifting CD's was illegal digital music products like the iPod may never have been the success they are today. Making ordinary people criminals, but prosecuting them inconsistently gives arbitrary power to the state. This can create a climate of fear and lead in the direction of a police state. Commercial bootlegging of CD's is a violation of existing copyright law, and nothing new needed to be made illegal to address it. I value and respect the contribution of the great Dane.