> Anyone can dupe a tape (audio or VCR). You haven't noticed the > movie industry starving, have you? > Thats becuase they made a product that's better - *DVD* - and I have for the most part Really felt satisfied with the product to cost ratio for DVD's I've been capable of burning DVD's for less than I can buy them for the last year or so, What stops me is the product is so good I want it to stay that way. I won't hesitate to create backup copies, and I won't hesitate to loan my dvd's out knowing I've got a back up if it gets detroyed lost or stolen, I don't care it it's legal because if I have a disk get destroyed you think I'm gonna get a replacement for it for free? (or even cost of manufacture) Ha not a chance! The idea that you purchase a lifetime right to view a product conflicts with the idea that you bought a physical item, if the physical item breaks you lose that right. Eventually the Mpaa faces the same crisis the Riaa does and they know it, for now though they have a good system, in 10 years when people have 100mbit connections to the net people will be trading movies in full quality if the Mpaa doesn't offer that delivery method first.