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Shocker: Despicable Conduct From Disney
An Anonymous Coward writes: "Phil Lelyveld, (email) a Vice President for Disney, has written to the FCC to tell them to ignore Digital Consumer's comments on the Broadcast Flag issue. The Broadcast Flag is an inter-industry conspiracy to turn over the keys to general-purpose computing to Hollywood studio execs -- under this proposal, no one will be able to ship digital television technology (like DVD recorders and FireWire) without Hollywood's permission. Lelyveld wrote to the FCC -- who are taking comments on the proposal -- without mentioning his day-job, to tell them that Digital Consumer, a civil liberties groups with more than 40,000 members, is nothing more than a "two dot.com millionaires" working to create a world "where we are all artist/waiters." Joined the EFF Yet? (or is it time to renew?) Update: 12/06 14:55 GMT by M : Lelyveld is not a lawyer. Here's a summary of his background.
I canceled my EFF membership long ago and support many of the causes as directly as I can.
Got a nicely petty response from them as well when I canceled.
The EFF are the folks that want to fight to allow folks to spam like their was no tomorrow. Next thing you know they'll be fighting to allow folks to spam my pager and my cell phone. In all cases, I pay for the messages I receive.
They manage to hitch on some good causes, but let's get some alternatives out there who can clearly speak to what we all care about. If nothing else it'll give folks a broader set of choices to support.
I was very impressed with some of the comments coming out of the fatwallet case for example.
Wow, your IQ must be somewhat less than your shoe size. What happens here eventually will happen in whatever European/Asian socialist paradise-cum-shoe factory you call home.
Hell, one of the key justifications for the introduction of the DMCA was ostensibly to "normalize" our copyright laws with those of the European Union.
Get a clue. Soon. You're going to need it.
the majority of the Slashdot editors are imaginary figures who represent perl scripts written by Cmdrtaco. That way he can collect more then one salary for basically doing nothing.
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. - Paul Feyerabend
What is the difference between God and a Lawyer?
God doesn't think he is a lawyer.
What do you call 100 lawyers dead at the bottom of a lake?
A good start.
How can you get 3 lawyers to wallpaper a room?
Slice them VERY thinly.
Yeah , right on comrade! Just a quick reality check - no more big corps = no more big money = no more blockbusters. unless of course you want artists to be funded by taxes. Some small budget films / albums might be ok but 99% of them suck. Try watching a low budget euro film and you'll see the true meaning of crap. (And I'm european btw)
You and lots of other people on here seem to forget an obvious point. The content is theirs. Ok? They paid possibly 100s of millions of dollars to create that film or album etc and they OWN it. Just because you went down K-mart and paid 10.99 for the CD or DVD doesn't mean you get full rights over what you can do with it. Protecting intellectual property which is what they're doing is the EXACT OPPOSITE of communism and if you don't understand that you should go take some politics classes. Remember , you have the option not to buy any of their product. If it really bugs you so much go buy a copy of some 16mm film made by Josepee the goatherd and his friends up some alpine hill...