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Sec. 2913.07. (A) As used in this section:

(1) "Audiovisual recording function" means the capability of a device to record or transmit a motion picture or any part of a motion picture by means of any technology existing on, or developed after, the effective date of this section.

(2) "Facility" includes all retail establishments and movie theaters.

(B) No person, without the written consent of the owner or lessee of the facility and of the licensor of the motion picture, shall knowingly operate an audiovisual recording function of a device in a facility in which a motion picture is being shown.

Now, I am not a lawyer but this doesn't seem to include the copying of media by staff of a theatre or retail outlet while the film is not being displayed publicly.

So what is the purpose of this legislation? To ensure that pirate videos are at least of telecine quality?

Maybe the legislators are sick and tired of downloading crappy cam quality ripoffs from Kazaa.

It's good to see that some politicians are prepared to stand up and be counted to ensure Quality In Piracy!

I found the amendment here

Thanks all the same.

Ohio does not have a "churning" legislature. What I mean is, some legislatures (like California's) introduce every single damn bill that they could and then try to pass it. Many state legislatures work this way, the culture being that they measure their productivity on how much they pass.

Ohio doesn't, they like to have lots of meetings to make perfect little bills, of which only 150-200 will be enacted in a two year time period. A state rep told me (I'm an amateur lobbyist) that Ohio legislators are scared to pass anything that another state doesn't have, in fear of making a mistake. It's like their primary day to day job is to make sure they get re-elected.

The law was enacted with HB 179 The original purpose of HB 179 was to allow for driver's license revocation/suspension for a person who drives off without paying for gasoline. (A bill spearheaded in the Senate Transportation Committee cuz the guy who's the head of the committee owns a bunch of Shell stations.) At any rate, I guess the movie industry successfully lobbied some committee to have this stuff added, and it meets the single subject rule (I guess) because both parts of the bill deal with "theft." And the penalties of the bill can be explained by virtue of the fact that they link directly to the general theft code (and I suspect that the penalty for theft of gasoline was compared and they decided to make it similar.)

Michigan's penalty probably came about because their law was enacted through a unique bill, but I'm not sure. The fact that penalties are so wildly different indicates that the movie industry is working very hard to get the bills introduced as quickly as possible, since the national conference of legislators hadn't discussed these bills yet in order to ascertain a model penalty.

It was actually piggybacked onto a bill that suspends someone's license for not paying at a gas station. The single subject is "theft." I believe this bill was signed on 11/13, so it will become live law on 2/13.

Either way, sounds like the MPAA is lobbying hard....

HB 179

Sec. 2913.07. (A) As used in this section:
(1) "Audiovisual recording function" means the capability of a device to record or transmit a motion picture or any part of a motion picture by means of any technology existing on, or developed after, the effective date of this section.

(2) "Facility" includes all retail establishments and movie theaters.

(B) No person, without the written consent of the owner or lessee of the facility and of the licensor of the motion picture, shall knowingly operate an audiovisual recording function of a device in a facility in which a motion picture is being shown.

(C) Whoever violates division (B) of this section is guilty of motion picture piracy, a misdemeanor of the first degree on the first offense and a felony of the fifth degree on each subsequent offense.

(D) This section does not prohibit or restrict a lawfully authorized investigative, law enforcement, protective, or intelligence gathering employee or agent of the government of this state or a political subdivision of this state, or of the federal government, when acting in an official capacity, from operating an audiovisual recording function of a device in any facility in which a motion picture is being shown.

(E) Division (B) of this section does not limit or affect the application of any other prohibition in the Revised Code. Any act that is a violation of both division (B) of this section and another provision of the Revised Code may be prosecuted under this section, under the other provision of the Revised Code, or under both this section and the other provision of the Revised Code.

If you want the largest audience possible, then using the latest web standards, such as promoted by Zeldman, is not what you want to do. The reason for this is because not all web browsers in current use work with these standards. And there are many reasons people won't or can't upgrade those browsers.

There is a way to make web pages so that they can use standards, and still work on older browsers. However, you might not like the end result. What you get on the older browsers is a very poor presentation. For example, if you define the look of your page in cascading stylesheets, when viewed on a browser with no support for CSS, you get crap.

Boundary conditions are even worse. If the browser is a version that tries to support something, and does it wrong, you can get even worse that crap. It might not work at all.

Mixing standards can cause problems as well. Here is an example. Lots of designers seem to like blue backgrounds for the side rail menus. But lots of web browsers default to blue for hyperlink text. If you specify the color of the text in a stylesheet, but specify the background color of a table cell (or worse, the whole page), in HTML, then you can end up with a situation where some of what you specify is acted on, and some is not. You'd end up with blue text on a blue background, and therefore unreadable.

It would be great if everyone could upgrade to the latest browser. But if you are trying to reach the widest audience possible, you do have to consider that many in that audience will be using older computers which have smaller drive space, smaller RAM space, slower CPUs, and can only run older versions of operating systems and browser software. While Linux might well be a great replacement for old versions of Windows on those machines, you still have the problem if shaving a recent version of some Linux distribution down to fit, and getting a huge obese browser to run on a tiny, slow, machine.

Here is an example of a real web site done in a way that displays terrible on some browsers. You can see what it looks like in Netscape 4 in PNG, or JPEG, or true color GIF (works on Netscape 2 and later) formats. If you scan very close in the blue area on the left (this does not work with the JPEG image), you can see that the colors are #5a61a9 for the background, and #5b61a9 for the text (specified by their HTML in the body tag, so they intentionally did this). By radically exaggerating the red plane (e.g. everything #5a and below is made #00, and everything #5b and above is made #ff), you can see (PNG, JPEG) the text was really there. And you'd think that a state government would be concerned enough about making their site available to all audiences, including the economically disadvantaged who can just barely even get a computer and internet access. But no, they don't actually care (I talked to these people, and they really don't care). Here is another crappy web site. By comparison, this site and this site look fine in this older browser.

Expect environmental regs to be cited as an obstacle to new expansion of generation and transmission capabilities as this issue goes forward.

Even better (From Seinfeld):
http://www.sconet.state.oh.us/Communications_Offic e/Justice_Pfeifer/2002/jp082802.asp

For those to lasy to click a link:

"SEINFELD: (ANSWERING PHONE) Hello.

"(TELEMARKETER): Hi. Would you be interested in switching over to TMI long-distance service?

"SEINFELD: Oh, gee, I can't talk right now. Why don't you give me your home number and I'll call you later?

"(A LONG PAUSE) (TELEMARKETER): Well, I'm sorry. We're not allowed to do that.

"SEINFELD: I guess you don't want people calling you at home.

"(TELEMARKETER): No.

"SEINFELD: Well, now you know how I feel."

The Dayton Daily News article discusses Charles F. Childs, an Ohio native. Last year I testified before the Ohio Senate Commerce Committe regarding a proposed spam bill. That bill was later passed into law . Among other things, the bill has opt-out requirements, requires a pre-existing business relationship, and makes it a feleny to forge headers and/or abuse open relays or proxies to send email. I would imagine that Mr. Childs, and another Ohio spammer, Tom Crowles, are in violation of some or all of the provisions of the Ohio spam law. Here's a new get rich quick scheme for you: hire an attorney and start collecting damages from these scum (up to $100 per email plus legal expenses).

I've always liked Ohio.

This thread reminded me of a Seinfeld episode where Jerry gets a call at home from a telemarketer, it goes something like this (taken from this page):

"SEINFELD: (ANSWERING PHONE) Hello.

"(TELEMARKETER): Hi. Would you be interested in switching over to TMI long-distance service?

"SEINFELD: Oh, gee, I can't talk right now. Why don't you give me your home number and I'll call you later?

"(A LONG PAUSE) (TELEMARKETER): Well, I'm sorry. We're not allowed to do that.

"SEINFELD: I guess you don't want people calling you at home.

"(TELEMARKETER): No.

"SEINFELD: Well, now you know how I feel."

Businesses or individuals determined to receive no more unwanted magazines or literature should write a letter to the sender, in a pre-paid envelope if provided, saying that they do not want more copies, quoting the code number on the mailing address label. Note that items marked 'return to sender' are likely to be diverted to landfill by the Post Office (Consignia).

http://www.in.gov/dor/assistance/index.html
https://ohiocrm.das.state.oh.us/tax/default.asp?2= default%5E20&10=TAX

It looks like Indiana and Ohio have some sort of recriprocal agreement on income taxes.

On the Yucca Mountain issue, I wonder whether other Western sites would be worth considering, like the Great Divide Basin in Wyoming... nothing there, nobody lives there, and Interstate 80 is near enough to get the waste transported there. Maybe the geology's wrong, or Wyoming's politicians are too strong for it to happen ;)

You're right about the insight being a "specialty car", but I'll take exception to calling it cramped. Storage is limited, but it's got plenty of room for two adults. I bought my Insight two years ago this week. I took it in this morning for the Ohio EPA-mandated emissions check. HC measured 2.2 PPM out of an allowable 220. CO measured 0.00 % (1.20% max allowable). Lifetime gas mileage is 63 MPG. I'd say I'm pretty satisfied.

If there were ever a better time for the Peregrine Falcon Recovery Plan to take off and kill these stupid pigeon-based April Fool's Day jokes....

http://www.webcheck.ag.state.oh.us/ Look Ohio was nice enough to put a package together to get information about us. "WebCheck uses the Internet to electronically transfer fingerprints and other data from the inquiring agency to the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation (BCI&I). "

What have you got against them anyway?

Nothing much aside from some of their history - it was just a joke and no offense was intended.

The Ohio Lawmakers are attempting to push through a law where the receipient of spam can take the offenders to small claims court if they dishonor a request to be taken off an opt-in list. For each piece of spam, you're entitiled to 100 bucks; however it has to go through small claims court. They've got to send you a spam, you call them to be taken off (If you can't call them, you win) the list, and if they email you again, they're hit. I heard it on the radio today, and thought it would go well with this. Ian

There's a summary by the Ohio State auditor. A CPA Journal article is more technically oriented.

I'm not aware of anything which is sensitive to any operating system. It's just a matter of having standards and procedures for all the hardware and software which is being used. A computer has to have controls over its maintenance, upgrades, and configuration. Those controls have to be formal enough for the auditor to be able to document them for the SAS 70.

I think GOSIP is recommended for use, not required, but let them explain their need for exceptions.

Or tell them to go away, as you're too busy trying meet GOSIP standards so your GOSIP network can then talk to their GOSIP network.

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