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Originally Posted by gideongallery
because this would violate the privacy rights of the customers
your talking about a company outside the sales process having to confirm your buying habits to grant you access
that is totally and completely different then company who makes the sales just having a login that still gives you access to the content you paid for.
you have already given the company who is making the sale your private information so there is no privacy right violation in having that company provide the fair use right
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I disagree. If I go to the store and buy a DVD and pay cash for it, I haven't given them any of my private information. Yes, I would be giving my information (or some form of it) to the company providing the service, but I don't see how that would violate privacy rights of the customer. If I go buy a gun I have to go through a background check, but the gun store didn't make the gun they are just distributing it.
By making me join a site that site is likely getting more of my personal information than any retail outlet would have especially if I paid in cash.
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as long as the copyright holders are willing to pay for the cost of that extra verification
including the 10k per privacy violation that it would have to have
no problem
of course just having them provide the life time free access to content for backup and recovery rights without violating my privacy right would of course be the better solution
if they can't afford it or don't want to
well ann. access to the content on the pirate bay gives me my fair use rights and retains my privacy rights too.
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Here's the thing. Say one day all the major movie studios decided to get together and offer all of their customers free access to their content for means of backing up content they have already purchased. Do you think for a second they are going to do this without forcing the customers to prove they have purchased it in the past?
If they did this then systematically went after the torrent sites to have them remove all links to their content would you be fine with that. The studios are now providing you with exactly what you want so those people who are just backing up their content can get access to anything they would need which means the only people left using pirate sites would be people illegally downloading it.