Even Movie Industry Execs Seem To Think The DMCA Is Unreasonable
We've pointed out for a long time that the DMCA is bad for innovation and needlessly inconveniences users. It seems the point is becoming so obvious that even senior executives in the movie industry are beginning to tacitly acknowledge (via Ars Technica) that the DMCA is unreasonable. At a conference on DRM last week, Scott Smyers, VP of network and systems architecture for Sony Electronics, admitted that he makes backup copies of his kids' DVDs.
While any reasonable person would agree that the DMCA is too restrictive, that isn't what happened here. The only thing this statement shows is that Movie Industry Execs think they are above the law (even if it's a law they lobbied for in the first place), which shouldn't be much of a surprise to anyone.