Well, here we are again: media makers suing a company that makes a product that bypasses copy protection. The latest go-round is between the game publishers mentioned above and 321 Studios, makers of Games X Copy, which does guess what.
Since everyone has heard this song and dance before, I’ll spare the proselytizing and tell the publishers that they’re still wrong, and that this kind of software still has a legal use— just like the computers, monitors, CD-ROM drives and hard drives that have legal uses and are just as complicit as the Games X Copy software when used illegally.
Not that I want publishers to suffer from piracy, just that I’d wish they’d give their lawyers something better to do than beat a dead horse. Maybe like forming a dance team, or building a soup kitchen to feed their developers.
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Read [the gory details at CNN]
