MPAA Finds First Actual DVD Copiers in U.S.

MattW writes: "Yahoo! is reporting that the first pirate DVD bust has occurred. Funny, isn't it, how the pirates don't need to crack any encryption to make copies of DVDs, but we have to ban DeCSS anyhow?"

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Training Day not released yet

[crystalplague]

From the article:

Some of the movies found haven't yet been released to video, including "The Lord of the Rings," "Training Day" and "Ali."

/me snickers at the fact hes ripping Training Day as he types this. Screw you MPAA...you'll never take me alive! Muwahahaha!

I am the king of KARMA!

[HanzoSan]

I DARE YOU TO MOD ME DOWN!! I have nearly 50 Karma and I may not go into troll mode!

Re:I'm Glad!

[Dyolf Knip]

Theft, pirating, stealing, all are actions that do not apply to what is going on today. If I steal from you, I take something you have and thereby deny you the use of it. Call it what it really is: file copying. And to call someone who clicks a mouse and types on a keyboard a 'pirate' is just silly and rather insulting to both real historical pirates and their victims.

"Stealing intellectual property" would mean taking away the copyright/patent/trademark/whatever from the author, thus denying him the right to distribute it as he pleases. This is something that's more applicable to the music industry than guys with computers! Recall the 'work for hire' fiasco a while back.

Should I not be allowed to make a copy of something provided I do not try to make money off it? You wouldn't, or at any rate shouldn't, find anything wrong with a guy recording the Superbowl and playing it back later for his friends, nor even of giving the tape to someone who didn't see it. Why is there such a great difference here?

What if instead of movies and music being copied, it was something a little less intangible. Like, say, food. Let's ignore the problems involved in teleportation and potential applications for copying anything physical and just say that a device that can make an infinite number of copies of any food item for free is invented and hooked up to the Internet and everything from Wonder Bread to filet mingon to 100-year old wine is being copied. Now, do you honestly side with the farmers and chefs and grocery stores and restaurants and food shipping companies in trying to make it illegal? Do you continue trying to keep a resource scarce long after that has ceased to be the case? Do you complain that their livelihoods and their intellectual property (really only applies to chefs and restaurants) are at risk and that the government must ensure them a steady income by turning back the clock? Or do you accept reality, that nobody really has to pay for food anymore and trying to force them to do so when they don't have to is counterproductive? That if you want to make money by selling tasty treats you have to to do something that people will want to pay you for?

Oh, and they didn't catch any 'guys'. They caught one guy and some equipment. Probably used quite a bit of the NYPD's time and resources in doing so. But that's okay, since NYC has no other real crimes that need their attention, right.