But it begs the question: what about rentals?

Also, there are all these copy-protection methods out there now and it only dissuades customers from buying products…. pirates can easily get around all these methods after a little while.

I can’t wait for the one batch of DVDs that are defective with this chip that causes the manufacturer to have to remake the entire batch of DVDs because the chips could not be activated. Seriously, this is getting irritating…. I remember when computer game software required a code-wheel or code-sheet that you had to enter with each play of the game. If you lost the code sheet, then you could no longer play the game. Not too much of a hassle, but if you had multiple games, you needed to keep all these friggin code sheets in order to play your game. If you lost the code wheel, you were SOL because the company would not sell another one to you because they would treat you as if you stole the game. After a while, they just stopped using these copy-protection methods and removed all the protections. Guess what, they still sell these games. Is there piracy? Probably. But at least the pirates’ need to steal them is less.

Let’s just get back to making DVDs with minor CSS copy-protection and stop treating the customers as if they were theves. I don’t see how companies can stay in business treating their customers like criminals.