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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.
You must be new here. Please report for mandatory DMCA reprogramming doubleplusspeedwise.
--riney
> 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!!!
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!!