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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. DRM this, RIAA that by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Is anyone else bored to death of story after story on slashdot about how horribly painful it is to buy DVDs and CDs, how horribly evil DRM and RIAA and MPAA are, how incredibly cool P2P is, ad nauseam et infinitum?

    If you want a copy of a song or movie, go buy the damn media and quit bitching.

    1. Re:DRM this, RIAA that by commodoresloat · · Score: 0, Troll
      Is anyone else bored to death of story after story on slashdot about how horribly painful it is to buy DVDs and CDs, how horribly evil DRM and RIAA and MPAA are, how incredibly cool P2P is, ad nauseam et infinitum?

      If you want a copy of a song or movie, go buy the damn media and quit bitching.

      Is anyone else bored to death of troll after troll on slashdot about how horribly painful it is to steal copyrighted music, how horribly evil pirates are, and how p2p serves no other purpose but theft, ad nauseum et infinitum?

      If you want to hear about something else, go listen to a song or watch a movie and quit bitching.

  2. Re:Who Owns Your Digital Media? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "only purchased a copy"

    No, you've bought the "right" to use the content. Make as many copies as you want. In fact, after the copyright expires (seven years after release) you can distribute them to your friends for profit. There are some countries which don't agree with the seven year rule, but fuck 'em. Just don't get caught unless you're heavily armed.