Comments on: Using Copyright Law to Block Price Arbitrage http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/01/using-copyright.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Josh http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/01/using-copyright.html/comment-page-1#comment-8992 Josh Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:55:02 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/01/using-copyright.html#comment-8992 <p>Yeah, well, they misuse the term "pirate" but then CopyOwner goes on to misuse it as well:</p> <blockquote>Copyright owners have enough trouble with real pirates. Infringement is a huge problem.</blockquote> <p>Let's see. Infringement: illicitly copying something. Piracy: <b>Stealing ships and killing people.</b>. Hmm. A little bit different, yes?</p> <p>Anyway, I find that the most despicable means of suppressing this "gray market" is through DRM and the DMCA. The DMCA makes it illegal to decrypt DVDs, and that's the only reason region encoding is effective in maintaining these artificial price differences. Yep, thanks to a bad law passed by the U.S. Congress.<br /> </p> Yeah, well, they misuse the term “pirate” but then CopyOwner goes on to misuse it as well:

Copyright owners have enough trouble with real pirates. Infringement is a huge problem.

Let’s see. Infringement: illicitly copying something. Piracy: Stealing ships and killing people.. Hmm. A little bit different, yes?

Anyway, I find that the most despicable means of suppressing this “gray market” is through DRM and the DMCA. The DMCA makes it illegal to decrypt DVDs, and that’s the only reason region encoding is effective in maintaining these artificial price differences. Yep, thanks to a bad law passed by the U.S. Congress.

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