As a modern day user and self proclaimed techie, I find the MPAA and RIAA is a serious hindrance when your talking common day technology. These are entities that use everything short of mobster tactics to imposed their position in the world. They don’t want you doing anything with the media you purchase unless THEY provide it, and then they want to charge for those alternate versions as well.
As anyone with a computer knows; the media is out there. If you look it’s out there and you can’t stop it. As Mr. Universe says, ‘You can’t stop the signal, it has to go somewhere and we [I] go everywhere’.
I equate it to placing a rock in a creek, the water is going to continue to flow. It may slow, but all your doing is forcing invention to go a different way, find a new route and to continue flowing. God thank those mid-night hackers who are not content with being corporate pidgins.
MPAA and RIAA are against downloading movies and music, anything outside the technology they are capable of, and they surely don’t want you sharing your media. They have really missed the boat on technology. We are talking about entities that are just really pissed they didn’t think about it first. So they have hired 24/7 lawyers to file lawsuits against anyone that has an IP address and a single shared copy of Eagles - ‘Hotel California’. The people they sue are not limited by the ability to have a heart beat or age; they’ll sue anyone.
These same people have blocked another a simple program from being released. Personally, I don’t like the program, but the premise from which it’s being blocked is ludicrous. They are blocking it because they think it’s going to allow customers to copy DVDs. RealDVD.
There are lots of other venues to copy DVDs. Anyone who has access knows they can Google ‘copy dvd’ and the answer is right there. It’s not a secret; it’s right there. All the information that’s been donated by everyday users that believe in the right to copy your own media- referencing the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992.
This Act states that it is perfectly legal to copy a media source the you have purchased for the purpose of a backup or replacement copy. Currently, the studios and manufacturers are making their DVDs and CDs as hard as possible to record so that they may not be copied. However the DVD burning software industry has found ways to circumvent these extra measures taken by studios. So the answer is: DVD copying is legal if you are owner of the DVD and you make a copy for your own personal use. [credit]
The law basically says that if you own it, you have the right to make a legal copy of the media you have for backup purposes. Anyone that has kids knows that CDs and DVDs don’t last long in the open wild. Are you really going to keep buying the same DVD and CD because the disc got scratched? No, that’s why if it’s important you make backup copies. Any smart person does this… they make backups.
To clearly say, this mentality states, if you record my voice and it’s got a song in the background; you have just committed a crime. If you are in a drive-in movie and you take a picture of me and a single scene from the movie is in it; your a criminal. If I like a song and I want you to hear it and I email it to you; I’m a criminal. Lastly, if you have a radio with a cassette recorder and you record a song, your committing a crime, but wait; they did that- they still do that and the MPAA and RIAA haven’t pulled the devices from the market.
I guess it’s a perfect example of picking your battles. I guess their idea is to go after the children and the deceased and for anyone that has a better idea than you, slap’m with a lawsuit. You really have to respect them for sticking with such a stupid idea for so long- in so many ways, it speaks for it’s self.
Regards,
NapoleonAG
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