Actually, you are purchasing a right to view the content. As mentioned before, the Supreme Court has ruled repeatedly that you have the right to do as you please with the content insofar as viewing/playing it. What you do NOT have the right to do, is distribute it to others.
While you are correct that Hollywood doesn't have to distribute HiDef films, once you have legally purchased that privilege, the only way the privilege of watching the content can be revoked is if you transfer your privilege to someone else (i.e. sell or give your disc to another, and I think pirating it to you also constitutes you voluntarily giving up your privilege), or if you are refunded your money (theoretically you are supposed to be able to get a refund if you refuse the license agreement on a copyrighted work, though no store will take it back, but that's another conversation).
Honestly, while it is important to stop piracy, the **AA are going after the wrong people. Almost all movies distributed over file-sharing networks are an inside job; either someone ripped a screener copy or cammed the movie while it was in the theater. All the copy protection in the world isn't going to stop that, they're going to have to do some purging if they want to stop it. Of course, it's a lot easier to take you or I to court, demand extra payments for rights that the courts have deemed come as part of the package (backup ability, transferability of license, transcoding, time-shifting), then convince Congress to protect those demands (DMCA).
Personally, I won't be buying either HiDef format, as my players are always my computers, since I loathe that I must sit through 10 minutes of previews for movies long-since gone from theaters and straight-to-DVD trash each time I want to watch my favorite movies, even though I *gladly* coughed up the cash to watch them. Let me do what I want with my content, and I'll gladly cough up the cash to use my glorious new HDTV. Don't, and I'll watch more of the skateboarding dog in widescreen...
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Actually, you are purchasing a right to view the content. As mentioned before, the Supreme Court has ruled repeatedly that you have the right to do as you please with the content insofar as viewing/playing it. What you do NOT have the right to do, is distribute it to others.
While you are correct that Hollywood doesn't have to distribute HiDef films, once you have legally purchased that privilege, the only way the privilege of watching the content can be revoked is if you transfer your privilege to someone else (i.e. sell or give your disc to another, and I think pirating it to you also constitutes you voluntarily giving up your privilege), or if you are refunded your money (theoretically you are supposed to be able to get a refund if you refuse the license agreement on a copyrighted work, though no store will take it back, but that's another conversation).
Honestly, while it is important to stop piracy, the **AA are going after the wrong people. Almost all movies distributed over file-sharing networks are an inside job; either someone ripped a screener copy or cammed the movie while it was in the theater. All the copy protection in the world isn't going to stop that, they're going to have to do some purging if they want to stop it. Of course, it's a lot easier to take you or I to court, demand extra payments for rights that the courts have deemed come as part of the package (backup ability, transferability of license, transcoding, time-shifting), then convince Congress to protect those demands (DMCA).
Personally, I won't be buying either HiDef format, as my players are always my computers, since I loathe that I must sit through 10 minutes of previews for movies long-since gone from theaters and straight-to-DVD trash each time I want to watch my favorite movies, even though I *gladly* coughed up the cash to watch them. Let me do what I want with my content, and I'll gladly cough up the cash to use my glorious new HDTV. Don't, and I'll watch more of the skateboarding dog in widescreen...