Bingowings said:

The piracy wouldn't stop entirely, some people will always want a free ride but arguable legitimacy to piracy would be halted, coupled with the cache of owning a legitimate copy (which is still important to many people) it would knock a lot of illegal and profit draining activity on the head.

True. I work with a couple of people who pirate films just because they can. One of them burned me a copy of The Dark Knight before it was released on DVD. One of those branded copies from the studios. I never watched it. Weird, that girl set up a Netflix account specifically for renting\copying. Not sure where she got The Dark Knight she was handing out.

After I bought Indiana Jones - Kingdom... on Blu-ray, I realized I had no way to rip the audio the way I normally do*. In passing, I mentioned it to her. She offered to get me a DVD copy, said she'd bring it in the next day. I passed and just bought a used one off Amazon to rip from. In fact, *rubs goatee pensively* I shall listen to it now, while I surf the internet work.

*I assume my audio rips are a form of illegal copying so I'm not clean either, but I do buy legal copies to rip from. In fact, I need to get 2001 on DVD. I only have it on Blu-ray.