If you buy a DVD you have a copy. If you want a backup copy you buy another one.
Washington and Hollywood spring from the same DNA.
In a political struggle, never get personal - else the dagger digs too deep.
A public domain work is an orphan. No one is responsible for its life. But everyone exploits its use, until that time certain when it becomes soiled and haggard, barren of its previous virtues. How does the consumer benefit from the steady decline of a film's quality?
If what you own cannot be protected, you own nothing.
A huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair.