hollow-moe
18 hours ago
> the Office wants more details from stakeholders. It asks which copy protections are involved, whether the titles can be watched legally some other way, and why making these copies wouldn’t infringe copyright. It also wants to know whether allowing this would hurt sales.
lol, look I'm a sony lawyer answering: "cryptography", "there is no way for us to assure you can watch every single episode you'd have on disc, the maintenance burden would be far too much, but our catalogue is already plenty enough and you can enjoy it as much as you want for as cheap as $PRICE/month.". "Such copies would absolutely breach copyright, they wouldn't be protected by our protection solution and could even possibly harm users devices". "Yes we would lose around 10000 bajillion dollars per month of subscription revenue by allowing people to preserve their collection of media we're too lazy to distribute ourselves."
pitched
15 hours ago
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
So the Sony/Funimation/Crunchyroll side will say that thing about 10000 bajillions per month. But also, the judge/office handling the case will eventually get booted out if voters are unhappy so have an incentive to not believe the them if the issue affects enough people. I’m not sure access to anime is a thing enough people will care about though.