"Yeah, I steal my computers, and if I like them maybe I'll buy one. If only there was a way to pay the systems engineer directly."

So who are the "artists" who should get paid for movies? The actors who are already overpaid to begin with? Should all the other people in the credits not get paid, from gaffer to bookkeeping, since they're not artists?

And to answer "how is this good for consumers?" The main benefit is if movie companies can make a profit, they'll keep making movies which ensures a stream of new movies for consumers, just as computer company profits ensure a stream of new computers.

I'm not saying it's good in any way to limit the use of any movie you buy in any way. If you buy it it should work on everything everywhere. But the idea that pirating is the answer, as if pirates run around buying things they like (if you do you're one in a trillion), belies that fact that without movie companies there'd be no movies.

As Chuck Norris has said many times: "without angels there'd be no rainbows, which is why I buy my angels rather than pirate them."

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Take your DRM and shove it, Apple.

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Dont get me wrong... Im all for copyright and intellectual property protection, but DRM is not the way to protect your works.

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