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Who Owns Your Digital Media?

Posted by chrisd on from the do-a-little-for-freedom dept.

Ren Bucholz writes "In what was designed to be a "safety valve," the Copyright Office is holding its tri-annual search for exemptions to the DMCA's prohibitions on circumventing access controls. The Electronic Frontier Foundation submitted comments last December that outlined four "classes of works" that should be exempt, including copy-protected CDs, region-coded DVDs, DVDs with unskippable promotional material, and public domain works that are only available on DVD. They are asking people to write in support of the four exemptions that they have proposed. The Copyright Office is only accepting comments until February 19th, so get on it!"

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  1. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 3, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  2. Err? Shouldn't there be... by The+Pi-Guy · · Score: 4, Funny

    DVDs which cannot be played on alternative systems? (For the purposes of compatibility)

    Or maybe not. Oh yes. And this comment is ROT26 encrypted so if you read it you're violating said law. kthxbye

    --NonToxic

  3. Microsoft by ciroknight · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course, who did you think owned it, yourself?

    --
    "Victory means exit strategy, and it's important for the President to explain to us what the exit strategy is." G.W.Bush
  4. Come and get me. by Stonent1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've got a blank CDR here. I'll keep it blank forever! It will be my only CD that no one but me has any rights to what-so-ever! Bwahahahah!

    As for the others, anyone want any War3z copies AOL 6.0, 7.0 and 8.0?

  5. Sorry folks, DeCSS is a criminals tool. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Most of you people who use it ought to be serving life sentences in prison for using it too since three felonies (3 counts of DMCA violation) is three strikes. You people are criminals and support such monsters as Sklyarov, Felten, Corely, etc. so don't except any support on this one. The DMCA is here to stay and much more restrictive legislation is on it's way so get used to it. There is nothing you can do about it. This is a socialist country which means that anything which increases the scope of the government is the norm. Quit being a criminal and learn to obey the law and report criminal monsters like copyright violators, illegal gun owners, drug users, libertarians, people who quote the constitution etc to the authorities. People who do the above are terrorists. If you don't believe that the government doesn't consider them to be terrorists then why did THIS happen if they don't consider it terrorism?

  6. Re:too little too late by arubis · · Score: 3, Funny

    Gee, that sounds great! All we need to do is go out and vote for the politicians that favor the citizenry over corporate cash!

    So, uhh...

    Who are they again?