[tptacek]

Cinemas have never had "ownership" over the movies they run. Do you not notice the slippery slope your argument is on? Either you're dignifying the concept of DRM, and acknowledging that there are times it's valuable, or it's not DRM.

[__david__]

I guess don't understand your argument. Why are you bringing up ownership? Cinemas purchase the right to play movies. I'm pointing out that the problem here was with the standard copy protection schemes employed by the digital cinema industry, not some sort of extra protection that you seemed to imply existed in your original comment. I would call that digital rights management myself, but it seems you are attaching some sort of extra meaning to those words that I'm not.