Chapter 20 - the Digital Enforcement

Applicability of copying restrictions

I agree that coping of software, music or some multimedia information is not prohibited if the owner has not made the source open or available for unlimited downloads. But I'm sure that in some cases the e.g the musicians/managers have been behind the scene to upload the music to promote the record and tours. 

In some cases the rights you buy for some records are not equal. E.g. when I buy a music cd and upload the files to my computer and then to my ipod I should have got this way a good backup of my music if I should lost the cd etc. But actually I don't.  The ipod has its own encryption system and is not really used like a hard drive.  In that case I might look for a program to decrypt the files.

If one buys audio language lesson cd from a shop he has it physically. When he or she has learned it they may give it as a gift for someone else. But if you buy the cd from internet you basically just have the right to use it in your computer. While putting this to a cd makes one automatically a pirate. If you have bought the one medium rights then it should work everywhere. 

I have head that it is ten times easier to download a music song from peer-to-peer networks than to be able to buy a genuine product from internet music stores. Quite often I have seen the site muusika24.ee out of order or there has just not been the record what i have looked for. 

On thing that has concerned me are the different file formats. Who does always have the propriate programs to open e.g .dwg, .psd, .ai suffix files? There should be at least a possibility to view the information of the files in any case. The medium my consist of vital important information what needs to be seen on earliest convenience. It does not make sense to buy the license of 1000 euro program which you may need to use it once.

I bought myself a TomTom navigation system. It worked fine until I borrowed it to a friend. He had accidentally hit the "delete" button of the Eastern Europe map. When I went back to the store to ask if it was possible to restore it they said no. If you bought it we told you to back it up to your pc. Unfortunately no one had told me so and I always believed there was a installation cd with the maps in the box. Wouldn't it make you mad and want to download the map from somewhere? Friend bought me a new map and I have the backup now.

There is a thin line between the right or wrong use of multimedia. Sometimes It has been the problem of some programs design and usability that have caused lost of software or data. Why shouldn't I cheat them if they have done it to me.