Re: New hack simplifies high-definition video copy
I have mixed feelings on this issue. One the one hand, the movie industry has the right to pursue real pirates and bootleggersthat is, those individuals or groups that are profiting off of the sales of illegal copies of video content, but they do not have the right to usurp fair use and treat consumers as if they are criminals. For that reason I commend people like Arnezami for their efforts, even though such activities have been criminalized by our corporate purchased Congress. (By the way, the March 2007 issue of
Playboy has an interesting forum article by four economic authors about how the US has become a corporatocracy. As the tagline for the article states, Why doesnt our goverment serve the People?)
Because our Congress has been bought off by corporations, including the movie and music industries, we have been denied our fair use right to make copies of movies and videos that we purchase legitmately. Macrovision and its DVD equivalent prevent law abiding consumers from making copies of videos they buy legally and in th dawning of using our home computers as media servers for our homes, this affront to copyright law is more insulting.
- Are you a parent with children that will quickly wear out a video or damage a DVD from repeated viewings? Want to make backup copies for the children to abuse while you keep the original safely tucked away? F
k you! You a pirate trying to profit off of our content. How dare you even think of making a copy of a video. If you cannot control your kids then you need to do without or just keep buying copies until they tire of watching the program.
- Want to take some movies on the road without risking losing or damaging your DVDs? Do you think that ripping a few movies onto your laptops hard drive would be the way to go? Fk you! You a pirate trying to profit off of our content. You just want to get movies onto your laptop so you can burn DVDs on-the-go and sell illegal copies of our content. Your laptop has a DVD drive, so there is no legitimate reason for you to rip the content to your hard drive.
- Home computers are getting more powerful and you are thinking, Hey that huge 500 GB hard drive on my iMac can hold a few movies, right? You have tossed around the idea of using your homes wireless network to stream movies ripped from your DVDs and stored on your computer to your home theater set up. Its in your house, it should be a perfectly reasonable thing to do, right? NO! Fk you! You a pirate trying to profit off of our content. You can buy a DVD player and hook it up to your television. There is no reason to copy DVDs onto your computer unless you are trying to use your computer to illegal make copies of our content and sell it.
Sound harsh. Well this is what the movie and music industries think of the consumer and their actions clearly demonstrate this mentality. Fortunately, the music industry has been hard pressed to implement an audio version of Macrovision and push it on the audio retail market; at least in the US. With music downloads DRM is almost mandatory is a service does not wish to be served with a court order, but as others have stated, 90 percent of music is still purchased on old-fashioned tangible media.
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