Mais dois artigos sobre como a indústria do entretenimento está, com o perdão da má palavra, botando na sua bundinha.

SJ Mercury: Entertainment industry’s copyright fight puts consumers in cross hairs.
If the business people who rule the entertainment industry had been as powerful 25 years ago as they are today, you’d be breaking the law if you set your videocassette recorder to tape your favorite Olympic event for later viewing. The VCR, assuming the entertainment industry would have allowed a manufacturer to sell it, would not have a fast-forward button because it would let you skip through the commercials without viewing them.

As for tape recorders, you would not have been able to make a copy of the music you just bought so you could play it in your car.

LA Times: Studios Assail ReplayTV Technology.
The suit filed by MGM, Fox, Universal Studios and Orion Pictures goes furthest, arguing that it’s illegal to let consumers record and store shows based on the genre, actors or other words in the program description. This claim threatens not just the ReplayTV devices, some copyright experts say, but all recorders like it. (…) “Nobody’s suing people who actually infringe copyrights anymore. Everyone is suing people who make devices,” Lemley said. “The [studios] are going after the creation of new technology.”

É por essas e outras que todo dia de noite eu sento em frente à minha lareira e leio um bom livro. De papel mesmo.