Re: Messed UP!
"Also the DRM / Copyprotection is STILL there when copyright expires. "
True. But will anyone care in 70 years when there are no working BD players left?
This does, however, raise the question of whether it's illegal to crack DRM to make a copy of something no longer in copyright. Copyright is expiring everyday. Is a BD version of a 70 year old film a "new" copyright on that specific medium? What if it's a special, cleaned up version of an old film? Or a re-edit? Is that now a derivative work with a new 70 year copyright period? Are you only "safe" to make copies from the original film or exact copies of the original? Is the fact it's even on some form of digital media mean that version is in copyright so you can't rip the digital version but can scan in the frames of the film yourself?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
