Of course, the point is that only one person in the world has to do
that, and then everyone else can just use their peer to peer program
of choice to download it. I'm not saying it's right, but that's the
way it works.

The only way that a copy protection scheme could work to stop piracy
is if either: (1) it couldn't be defeated by *anybody*; or (2) there
wasn't an easy way to share the file with the world once the
protection was defeated. The record companies are delusional if they
think the former point is true with respect to anything they've come
up with so far (or likely will come up with in the future), and the
latter point obviously isn't true because that's what the whole copy
protection thing is trying to put an end to. The result is that copy
protection only ends up encouraging that which it seeks to eliminate
(i.e. illegal downloads). Dumb, dumb, dumb.


(Mike Rivers) wrote...
So do the orignal poster a favor. Offer that if he sends your kid the
original disk, you'll send him back a copy that he can play, and
upload, and freely copy for others who are tempted to buy the official
release.