http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/study-finds-that-one-third-of-consumers-copy-dvds/ Engadget Comments for Study finds that one-third of consumers copy DVDs http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/study-finds-that-one-third-of-consumers-copy-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/study-finds-that-one-third-of-consumers-copy-dvds/Jul 9th 2008 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/study-finds-that-one-third-of-consumers-copy-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/study-finds-that-one-third-of-consumers-copy-dvds/Jul 9th 2008 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/study-finds-that-one-third-of-consumers-copy-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/study-finds-that-one-third-of-consumers-copy-dvds/
I usually play backups of my kid's DVDs because they get destroyed in no time and have other disks ripped for playing on the PS3. While it is fairly straightforward to make a copy, I certainly wouldn't say it is something that 1/3 of users could do. People just aren't that computer savvy. You need a PC with a DVD rewriter, burning tools, recoding tools (Nero Recode or DVD Shrink), DVD Decrypter / AnyDVD, a lot of patience and a general working knowledge of the pitfalls involved.

Some people obviously can and do pirate but that figure is nonsense. Wouldn't surprise me at all if the result was gamed by targetting a specific class of consumers to make the issue look a lot worse than it is.]]>Jul 9th 2008 10:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/study-finds-that-one-third-of-consumers-copy-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/study-finds-that-one-third-of-consumers-copy-dvds/Jul 9th 2008 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/study-finds-that-one-third-of-consumers-copy-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/study-finds-that-one-third-of-consumers-copy-dvds/
If it was an internet poll, then OBVIOUSLY!! This is so far from the truth, its insane... I dont know many people in my circle of friends that actually burn DVDs...
]]>Jul 9th 2008 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/study-finds-that-one-third-of-consumers-copy-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/study-finds-that-one-third-of-consumers-copy-dvds/I rip every movie I rent to my hard drive to watch the commentary track and special features when I can, then trash it. I never re-burn them.]]>Jul 9th 2008 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/study-finds-that-one-third-of-consumers-copy-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/study-finds-that-one-third-of-consumers-copy-dvds/
Expect a knock from Big Brother anytime now...]]>Jul 9th 2008 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/study-finds-that-one-third-of-consumers-copy-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/study-finds-that-one-third-of-consumers-copy-dvds/
"...77 percent of US respondents would have legally purchased the titles if copying was not available, while 63 percent answered similarly in the UK"

"Most users are making copies of their own purchased DVDs but a significant proportion are also copying movies they've rented or borrowed.... 62 percent of US respondents and 49 percent of U.K... copied a new movie they own, while 38 percent of U.S. respondents and 30 percent of U.K.... copied a movie they've rented"

So, 62% - 49% copy ANY movies... (say 1/3 for ease), and of that 38% - 30% (say 1/3 for ease) copy movies they DO NOT own. So that means of 1/3 of the 1/3 are copying commercial stuff which is only 1/9th of the population, a tab above 10%. So now, only 3/4 of those would actually buy one if piracy was not available. So, only about 7.5% would actually buy one if piracy wasn't around.

Now ask yourselves you damn movie studios and MPAA... would your profits rise more or less than 7.5% if you stopped spending Billions on DRM and calling ALL of your customers pirates and pissing everyone off with it.

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Of that 7.5% who would "buy one", as you put it, they reported that they would buy "at least a few" of the DVDs that they burned.

Which makes sense.

I'm putting that "few" at 10%.
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COPYING IS NOT A CRIME, AS MACROVISION WOULD HAVE YOU BELIEVE!!!!!

NOT EVERYONE THAT COPIES DVDS AND CDS IS A PIRATE!!!

JEEZ, WAKE UP IDIOTS AT MACROVISION.]]>Jul 9th 2008 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/study-finds-that-one-third-of-consumers-copy-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/study-finds-that-one-third-of-consumers-copy-dvds/
It should not be a crime, and if it was ever taken to court the supreme court might find that it is unconstitutional, but it is a crime.

i don't believe 1/3 at all. Maybe 1/3 of engadget readers. ]]>Jul 9th 2008 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/study-finds-that-one-third-of-consumers-copy-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/study-finds-that-one-third-of-consumers-copy-dvds/
In the UK it's merely a copyright infringement at best, which is a much lesser (civil) offense.

In the UK downloading (and copying to disc) to watch for your own non-commercial personal use is not a criminal offense.

This is the truth of the matter, no matter how much the corporations & their tame paid lawyers claim different.

Even in terms of UK civil law there has not been a sufficient body of case law built up to definitively say whether it is even a civil offense.

The industry (as with most big business) might well have the US legal system wrapped around it's greedy little finger but that outrageous & unjust state of affairs does not pertain everywhere else.

(although I note that in a recent case even a US judge was not prepared to to accept that sharing files in a shared folder constituted 'piracy' - which is yet another perversion of the launguage......piracy is a term which ought to be applied only to those who copy other people's work to illegally sell it for personal gain.

The anti-sharing principle is absurd and entirely based on pure corporate greed anyways, without sharing & being able to use what has gone before - which is a hallmark of much of human progress - we'd become a museum society)

Up the sharers!

(wise up corps, you'll never stop people sharing, we've known it's the right thing to do since we were little kids) ]]>Jul 10th 2008 8:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/study-finds-that-one-third-of-consumers-copy-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/study-finds-that-one-third-of-consumers-copy-dvds/
More news from the world of common sense at 11.]]>Jul 9th 2008 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/study-finds-that-one-third-of-consumers-copy-dvds/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/study-finds-that-one-third-of-consumers-copy-dvds/]]>Jul 9th 2008 7:10PM