Nonetheless, any purposefully built in restrictions on how I can choose to use something can only limit its potential value to me. A seller might find it necessary to add those restrictions but it is the height of fancy to assume they don't decrease value. All we can hope for is to have those restrictions be trivial enough that buyers will put up with them.
Otherwise competitors (legal and otherwise) will create products without those restrictions, and eat your lunch.
- Tom Jeroen Stessen wrote:
Hello, Doug McDonald wrote: > You are thinking NOT from the point of the buyer. Copy protection > seriously reduces the value of a product. Huh ? And I suppose that you think that locks on the doors reduce the value of a house ? Nonsense. Good copy protection, that is built into a standard from the start, not as an afterthought as with audio CD, is completely invisible to the honest user. Until he starts handing out illegal copies. All this bullshit about the right to make "backups", copies for the car, downsampled copies for the portable media player, it is not true. The only reason for making copies is for giving them away or for trading. A bit of undefeatable copy protection goes a long way for reading people their rights. If people were honest, the lock and key would not have been invented. Now count the keys in your pockets. Best regards, -- Jeroen, who also uses DVD Decrypter on a regular basis... +-------------------------------+------------------------------------------+ | From: Jeroen H. Stessen | E-mail: Jeroen.Stessen@xxxxxxxxxxx | | Building: SFJ-5.22 Eindhoven | Deptmt.: Philips Applied Technologies | | Phone: ++31.40.2732739 | Visiting & mail address: Glaslaan 2 | | Mobile: ++31.6.44680021 | NL 5616 LW Eindhoven, the Netherlands | | Skype: callto:jeroen.stessen | Website: http://www.apptech.philips.com/ | +-------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
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