Re: So you're stating that purchase of a DVD means you own "the movie", the "content"?
Sorry I missed your comment prior to leaving mine. You are about the only other person on here who can see this garbage article for what it is. Clickbait.
Re: So you're stating that purchase of a DVD means you own "the movie", the "content"?
Sorry I missed your comment prior to leaving mine. You are about the only other person on here who can see this garbage article for what it is. Clickbait.
I really am starting to dislike this site. The initial premise of the article was possibly fine, but the idiotic comments afterwards are indicative of the fact that the copyright laws aren't understood by people and the writer made no attempt to provide those statues. No doubt it's because of all the pageviews these trolling topics garner.
Not "you" as in you personally or techdirt. "you" as in much of the public, including me, when I hear about people being persons of interest that weren't arrested/detained/whatever at some point or another right before they go nuts and kill people. Maybe I should have said "we idiots".
It's impossible to know who the next person will be that commits an evil act. So as opportunities come up to possibly stop some future act, I support eliminating the threat.
From the limited excerpts here, I read the "and this is protected by law" to mean that the rights of the publisher to use DRM is protected by law.
In the US, Apple can try to kill all the iPhone/iPad/iPod jailbreak efforts they want, but new JBs aren't considered as DMCA circumvention acts, even though Apple fought vigorously to try to get that in. I think it's the same here.
In other words, the copyright holder's attempt to protect his content using DRM is protected by law. However, a media owner's rights to make copies is also protected by law.
If the content owner makes the DRM so tough to circumvent that it's impossible to make a copy, then at that point the government needs to be notified.
Just because the law is changed doesn't mean the judiciary has to make it easy.
In the US I can see this being done so that it panders to the voters sense of fairness to keep them happy while still enabling politicians to continue taking in RIAA money. See, WIN-WIN!
So far it seems that you're the only one that interpreted this correctly.
We learn three things here:
1. Copying was made legal for media you own on DVDs, etc. 2. DRM continues to be allowed. 3. Circumventing the DRM is okay. If it's too onerous, then complain.
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Re: Re: Clickbait article
On the post: DVD Makers Say That You Don't Really Own The DVDs You Bought... Thanks To Copyright
Re: Re: Clickbait article
The first sale rule enables the DVD/Book/etc. to be sold and the author or copyright holder cannot limit that.
This is long established law.
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Re: Re: So you're stating that purchase of a DVD means you own "the movie", the "content"?
On the post: DVD Makers Say That You Don't Really Own The DVDs You Bought... Thanks To Copyright
Re: So you're stating that purchase of a DVD means you own "the movie", the "content"?
On the post: DVD Makers Say That You Don't Really Own The DVDs You Bought... Thanks To Copyright
Re: So you're stating that purchase of a DVD means you own "the movie", the "content"?
On the post: DVD Makers Say That You Don't Really Own The DVDs You Bought... Thanks To Copyright
Clickbait article
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Re: Re: Silly article
It's impossible to know who the next person will be that commits an evil act. So as opportunities come up to possibly stop some future act, I support eliminating the threat.
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Silly article
Or until the person goes and shoots some mall up and then you idiots scream about how the government knew about him but didn't do anything.
Stupid article.
P.S. SOP on the date. I'm an attorney and that's the way we write it all the time.
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In the US, Apple can try to kill all the iPhone/iPad/iPod jailbreak efforts they want, but new JBs aren't considered as DMCA circumvention acts, even though Apple fought vigorously to try to get that in. I think it's the same here.
In other words, the copyright holder's attempt to protect his content using DRM is protected by law. However, a media owner's rights to make copies is also protected by law.
If the content owner makes the DRM so tough to circumvent that it's impossible to make a copy, then at that point the government needs to be notified.
On the post: UK Finally 'Legalizes' CD & DVD Ripping... But You're Still Not Allowed To Circumvent DRM
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In the US I can see this being done so that it panders to the voters sense of fairness to keep them happy while still enabling politicians to continue taking in RIAA money. See, WIN-WIN!
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Re: wat
We learn three things here:
1. Copying was made legal for media you own on DVDs, etc.
2. DRM continues to be allowed.
3. Circumventing the DRM is okay. If it's too onerous, then complain.
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