Is CD Copy Protection Illegal?

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Is CD Copy Protection Illegal?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday January 4, 2002 @10:54AM from the wouldn't-it-be-nice dept.

ribbiting writes "US Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va. is asking RIAA execs to explain how they can collect royalties on various blank media at the same time that the RIAA members are implementing copy protection mechanisms, with particular reference to the Audio Home Recording Act (AHRA) of 1992." Glad someone is asking the question.

21 of 573 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

WHUHU by Anonymous Coward · 2002-01-04 10:55 · Score: -1, Offtopic

f
i
er
s
t

p
o
s
t
Firstest! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-01-04 10:56 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Of all posts, this is undoubtedly the firstest.
#1 by Anonymous Coward · 2002-01-04 10:57 · Score: -1, Offtopic

#1
I FP AND YOU DID NOT by Anonymous Coward · 2002-01-04 10:58 · Score: -1, Offtopic

yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss sssssssssssssssssssssss i cum on your mother's puss!
fp by kndnice · 2002-01-04 10:58 · Score: -1, Offtopic

this is what i live for
Glad .... ? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-01-04 10:58 · Score: -1, Offtopic

"Glad someone asked the question" ?

Have you not being reading /. ??
1. Re:Glad .... ? by MisterBlister · 2002-01-04 11:08 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  Asking Cmdr "Story Repost" Taco if he hasn't been reading /.? Have YOU not been reading /.?
Re:No, I guess by Anonymous Coward · 2002-01-04 10:58 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Did you even read the article?
eh? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-01-04 10:58 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Copy rotection?
d00d by Anonymous Coward · 2002-01-04 11:00 · Score: -1, Offtopic

fp
What about the Telco by mfos.org · 2002-01-04 11:01 · Score: 4, Offtopic

This seems similar to the Bells and AT&T selling the consumer Caller ID, then CID blocker to the telemarketers, then selling caller id blocker blocker to the consumer, then ....
1. Re:What about the Telco by ImaLamer · 2002-01-04 11:29 · Score: 2, Offtopic
  
  Actually!
  
  I worked for Gannett Tel-Sel which is of course a division of Gannett Media.
  
  At their Cincinnati office [sells the Cincinnati Enquirer] we had a problem coming. Cincinnati Bell was going to implement the 'your number is blocked - enter the number now' service.
  
  Basically if you called me now from a private line you would get a message asking you to put in your 10 Digit number [or any 10 numbers!].
  
  The automated dialing system wouldn't like this one bit. Two days before the system was rolled out 10 execs came in to talk to our supervisors.
  
  I don't know what went on in that meeting, actually it was the only thing I never found out in that office. But I do know there were several calls to and from the firm that setup the auto-dial system.
  
  One day later we had techs out the wazoo making upgrades left and right.
  
  I couldn't get inside the meeting because it was for the 'downtown' people and the uber managers.
  
  Want anymore info on this tiny organization? Like how the Tele-Zapper doesn't affect the system? How the uber-uber manager got her job by threatening to sue for sexual harrassment but kept a manager who twice committed statutory rape; of course with a telephone sales rep? How the person who was going to 'rat' was pushed out of her job? [and the woman who quit was so beloved, I for one cried her last day because she would do anything for us 'kids']
  
  --
  Get your Unix fortune now!
copy rotection by Anonymous Coward · 2002-01-04 11:04 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Does taco purposely make spelling mistakes in every single story? I'm going to guess that about 30% of the comments to this story will be complaing about his spelling. I think this is just taco's way of getting the comment count up.
Re:No, I guess by Anonymous Coward · 2002-01-04 11:09 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Wow, did this really deserve to get moderated down into oblivion? The moderators are quite angry today.
Re:No, I guess by Anonymous Coward · 2002-01-04 11:12 · Score: -1, Offtopic

nibble nibble munchkin. the M$FT is so big yes. it controls, controls all. the people they walk by i see their feet though my window. their feet swing by the bars on my window. pretty feet shiny shoes. swish swish. are they going to work? i WILL NOT go to work. M$FT is at work. M$FT controls the pretty feet people. controls their money their futures.

i sit and rebuld my kernel. my CPU thrums. the kernel it is the key. we hack the linux yes good. 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, ...2.6!!!!!!!!! the M$FT it fears the linux. spreads lies. says the linux comes with no warranty. THE WARRANTY IT IS BAD! it goes into your pores. steals your power. the kernel is good. the kernel will rise and slay the M$FT. when the itching comes i think about the linux. it helps.

i hack a driver for my dvd-rom. it does not work. i debug. it does not work. i delete the old source. and start again. i recompile. it does not work. on M$FT the dvd-rom is plug and play. that is how they get you. get behind your eyes. start the itching. so i hack the driver. i hack, we hack: we gnaw. gnaw at the ropes of slavery. the ropes of M$FT. pretty feet people, we will save you.

the itching comes...
Re:In Canada... by ConceptJunkie · 2002-01-04 11:22 · Score: 1, Offtopic

But if you do that, Hilary Rosen can't get diamond-studded vanadium-plated hubcaps for her 3 Mercedes.

You thief! Turn yourself in to the proper authorities immediately!

--
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
Re:In Canada... by haruharaharu · 2002-01-04 11:40 · Score: 1, Offtopic

You thief! Turn yourself in to the proper authorities immediately

Okay, I'm the proper authorities. Now what?

--
Reboot macht Frei.
my affair with cron by hyrdra · 2002-01-04 14:35 · Score: 1, Offtopic

I knew that cron job would get some attention!

--

"I'll just chip in a bit for RedHat: I actually have that installed on my university machine." - Linus, '95
Comment removed by account_deleted · 2002-01-04 14:45 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Comment removed based on user account deletion
Re:In Canada... by Pig+Hogger · 2002-01-04 15:35 · Score: 1, Offtopic

You thief! Turn yourself in to the proper authorities immediately
Okay, I'm the proper authorities. Now what?
He probably means that you should fuck yourself...
Re:Hmm... by Luyseyal · 2002-01-04 17:38 · Score: 1, Offtopic

He might have kids and chooses to stick it out in a good school district. That's what I'm doing, although I despise living in a duplex.

-l

--
Help cure AIDS, cancer, and more. Donate your unused computer time to worldcommunitygrid.org. Join Team Slashdot!