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Except that the law does explicitly allow making backup copies of programs, and guess what, a DVD with menus is a program. In addition, making a backup copy of your purchased product is widely recognized by lawyers to be fair use. Don't be so quick to hand over your rights to companies. Yes...

As an example, just off the top of my head, I bought a DRMed PDF copy of Spock's World, a Star Trek novel by Diane Duane. It used some particular form of DRM that was, at the time, integrated into Adobe Acrobat. It wouldn't work with non-Adobe readers (I use a Mac, and the Mac OS "Preview" app...

Here's the thing: It only ever has to be pirated once. After that, all subsequent copies of the pirated copy have a marginal cost of 0, since bits are easily copied. This is the thing that DRM purveyors and proponents refuse to face; if just one person is smart enough and willing to break your...