From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Don't know about in the UK, but here stateside, most of that old film stock
is on DVD you can buy for 2.00 or less in many discount chain stores.

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Glenn M.
"Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in message
news:45d4edd3$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> mike wrote:
>> On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:15:58 +0000, Adam
>> <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge"> wrote:
>>
>>> "Almost two-thirds of music industry executives think
removing digital
>>> locks from downloadable music would make more people buy the tracks,
>>> finds a survey...."
>>
>> Ya think?
>>
>> (same thing probably applies to DRM-laden, product-deactivated operating
>> systems as well.)
>>
>>
>>  /m
>
> Not to mention back catalogs of films which have very small values for
> each copy as everyone has seen them or they're so old no one would want
> to...
>
> e.g. "Jimmy Stewart films" or "1930'es gangster movies" etc.
>
> The truely sad thing is that reality of art is that the only art which
> truly survives is that which is copied.
>
> i.e.  with DRM lots of songs, films etc will simply
"disappear" much as
> say the works of Sappho etc.
>
>
> Adam

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