Bad idea. Bad, bad, bad idea. I'm not a lawyer, and I can see some
severe problems already.
The difference between your proposal and the
GPL is that the GPL works inside the law. When GPL code is distributed,
no-one is breaking the law. In the case of your proposal, there is a lot of
law-breaking happening; P is choosing deliberately weak passwords in a clear
attempt to provoke copyright circumvention, and the people downloading the films
are in turn in pretty clear circumvention of copyright restrictions.
All
you're doing is trying to hide the evidence, which makes P look even guiltier.
Especially since no-one needs to break the CFAA to find out that the extra
copies are out there - they just need to track down someone who's downloaded the
film for that.
No, a better way to apply GPL-like ideas to film would be
to persuade the people who own the copyright to release it under a Creative
Commons style license. You can't do that with arbitrary films, of course. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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