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Re: DeCSS, crypto, law, and economics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Tue Jan 7 21:23:43 2003
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 18:14:44 -0800
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
In-reply-to: <87of6smnzb.fsf@snark.piermont.com>
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
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On 7 Jan 2003 at 20:25, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> I don't know anyone who trades video files -- they're pretty
> big and bulky. A song takes moments to download, but a movie
> takes many many hours even on a high speed link. I have yet
> to meet someone who pirates films -- but I know lots of
> hardened criminals who watch DVDs on Linux and BSD. I'm one
> of these "criminals".
I pirate films routinely. These are almost invariably films
that I could not obtain in any other way. The amount of time I
spend watching films on my computer, and on television, is
roughly comparable.
Similarly most of the music I listen to on my computer, I could
not readily purchase. Stuff I can readily get through
commercial channels I do -- the convenience, rather than the
cost, is important to me.
--digsig
James A. Donald
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