You know what else has the same effect on the seller? Buying a $thing and having friends over to view it, or lending it to them.<p>That has the &quot;same practical effect&quot;, yet the folks who like to moralize about copyright don&#x27;t seem to have as much of an issue with that. (Though I&#x27;m sure the content industry would find a way to charge for this completely legitimate use if they could)<p><i>You still don&#x27;t have a right to the content.</i><p>I place precisely zero value on your opinion on this matter because you lost most of this fight the moment the copy command was invented, and the idiocy behind the content industry lost the rest. This includes greatly exaggerated &quot;losses&quot;, suing of computer-illiterate elderly people and network printers, perversion of the copyright system from something beneficial for the arts to a means of cultural control and profit above all else.<p>We&#x27;re people, we can change the law however we see fit. I suggest it&#x27;s time that we push this pendulum back in the other direction, and then snap it off.