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Adam Bresson Demonstrates Fair Use at DefCon

Posted by timothy on from the shameful-that-this-should-be-remarkable dept.

nigelc writes: "Adam Bresson showed how to make copies of copyright-protected videos in a speech at DefCon. To quote the article, 'I hope he's got a lawyer and that they talked to somebody'" From the article, it sounds like Bresson simply used a video conversion box to defeat MacroVision -- something my notorious criminal father has been doing for years.

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  1. No one cares about VHS anymore anyway by winse · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Its' like stealing from the city dump. It may be illegal but who's going to stop you.

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