Beating a dead horse - Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act

[Jim]

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I agree with everything you say, Alan, and have but one comment to make.  

Heretofore, it has been the responsibility of the copyright owner to protect 
the material that they own the copyright for.  The MPAA and the RIAA have 
done little, if anything to protect their copyrighted material, except bitch 
to their well-paid-for Congressmen and Senators and having the copyright law 
changed to extend well beyond its original intent.

This legislation, aside from assuming that all digital users are pirates and 
eliminating the "fair use" doctrine completely, forces the government, the 
technology companies to enforce the copyrights.  The RIAA and the MPAA have 
tons of money to buy the legislation that they want.  The American people 
will again be raped by the companies that have the power and finances to do 
whatever they want.

::jumping off my soap box::  

On Sunday 31 March 2002 12:27, you wrote:
> I must be dense today.  I'm not sure I follow you.
>
> According to "fair use" I am able to make a copy of a DVD to VHS without
> violating copyright.  According to copyright "fair use" law and case law, I
> can rip a CD I purchased to copy it to a cassette tape so I can listen to
> it in my car as long as I don't sell or give the copy to someone else.  It
> is a copy only for my use.
>
> This CBDTPA will not eliminate fair use by law but will probably eliminate
> it by implementation of the technology.  I don't see how it could be
> possible under current market conditions and technology to make every
> possible digital device allow "fair use" of digital content.  If I download
> a book, how can it be locked to my computer, my PDA, my laptop and perhaps
> my printer (it's a digital device) but not let me transmit a copy to my
> friend?  I don't know what cheap technology could be used that would
> prevent copies to my friend (violating copyright) but at the same time NOT
> prevent copies to my own other devices.  Every device would have to have
> the same, unbreakable ID that is also encoded into the content.  How do all
> the devices get the same unbreakable ID?  This leads straight to the
> national (international?) electronic ID card.
>
> All this invasion of privacy, expense and infrastructure because Disney et.
> al. want to charge for every bit they have copyrighted and assume everyone
> is a pirate?  I have to pay for every digital copy?
>
> It is impracticle nonsense.
>
> Alan
>
> On Sunday 31 March 2002 09:20 am, you wrote:
> > Oh, like trying to make a VHS copy of a DVD?  The DVD player won't
> > allow it without getting trick with extra equipment.
> >
> > Gotcha.
> >
> > George
>
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Jim

Freedom is worth preserving
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