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Adam Bresson Demonstrates Fair Use at DefCon
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.
I love my vcds. When will they stop making dvd players without this capability.?
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... that was one of the problems with Defcon this year and in the last few years past... Yea the speakers speak about some interesting topics that usually aren't passed around in email or around the water cooler, but most of them are far from innovative unique thoughts....
DVDs come all out at basically the same price, the companies that produce them make very little allowances for the retailers to compete based on price. Smae history with CDs.
The Music and Movie companies behave like a cartel, fixing prices. I think there is amoral justification to go around that even if one may commit copyright infirngement in the process (which in many situations is not the case, fair use has to be considered).
IANAL but write like a drunk one.