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Ripping DVDs to Handhelds = Fair Use?
An anonymous reader sent us a "CNET column highlights DVD to Pocket PC, a US$25 software package that allows users to rip DVDs for viewing on Windows handhelds. The story details the hoops that Amsterdam-based Makayama is jumping through to comply with "fair use" as [narrowly] defined by U.S. law.
This is going to destroy the movie industry. Before you know it people are going to want to watch the same movie multiple times and only pay once. Think about the poor starving actors sweltering on the city streets this summer while you're sitting around sipping iced tea and watching your pirated movies at the beach this summer you smug fucks.
.. they're called books. Though I'm still trying to wrap my head around the idea of someone having written a novelisation of Kenneth Brannagh's adaption of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein.
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--riney
/me runs off to trademark office...
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"For those who, want to watch it during flights, read a book or something, Or try talking to your fellow passengers, you may make a friend or two."
So you was the motormouth sitting next to me.
Are you ripping the Oz series??
You insensitive clods! I am a stuntman and have children to feed!
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Also, there are some movies that wouldn't translate too well.. I'm not sure if it would work with visual films such as The Matrix Revolutions. 'Big Deus Ex machina head comes out of f**king nowhere' doesn't quite work in text form.
Back on topic slightly, it strikes me that one of the cons of having portable movies like this would be taking a film that's banned in one area to another area - who knows what UK customs would make of that uncut version of House by the Cemtetary being brought into the UK. Would they confiscate your PDA or just get you to delete it?
> Companies are trying to have it both ways, and refuse to pick which one it really is.
Yeah, they'd like to specify very narrowly how your license is used. You can listen to:
- this song only
- on this CD only
- in your Barbie CD player only
- while wearing your bunny jammies only
- and only in your bedroom
If you want to listen to it in you pinstripe suit, in your car, on the way to work, you BETTER be buying another license, you dirty rotten scumbag of a thief!!!
Cmdr Taco isn't asking if it's fair use to rip DVDs to handhelds. He's assigning fair use to it: #include int main() { char fairUse[] = "Ripping DVDs to Handhelds" return 0; }
For a long time I was told I was a geek. Now I am an outlaw and a rebel. Thanks to DCMA, maybe girls will want me now. :)
Rip away!!