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MIT Student Grills Valenti on Fair Use

Posted by timothy on from the un-something-believable dept.

kcsduke writes "Following a recent speech at MIT on Movies in the Digital Age (streaming audio available), MPAA front man Jack Valenti sat down for a revealing interview with The Tech, MIT's student newspaper. In this entertaining read, Keith J. Winstein grills Valenti on fair use and the right to play DVDs under GNU/Linux. My favorite part is when Winstein shows a dumbfounded Valenti a six-line DVD descrambler he's designed, to which Valenti responds with language inappropriate for the Slashdot homepage. Throughout the interview, Valenti demonstrates his ignorance and misunderstanding of fair use."

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  1. Oswald Missed by fishbowl · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Valenti, of all the people who were in JFK's motorcade on Metro Day in '63, has enjoyed the longest career, and arguably wields the most political power today. In Oliver Stone terms, "Who Benefitted?" you'd better consider Jack Valenti.

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    -fb Everything not expressly forbidden is now mandatory.
  2. Re:Best. Excerpt. Ever. by shpoffo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Diverging from topic a bit....

    Did you know people are stupid enough to buy bottled water when they have clean tap water?

    Did you know people are stupid enough to think that tap water is clean when it is not? Did you know that EPA reulations allow a small ( < ~10%) percent of homes to be furnished with water that exceeds contamination levels by any degree

    Well, you do now.

    That means the water coming from your tap could have carcinogens, and/or lead levels 100+ times greater than standards allow - and there's nothing you could do except stop using your water....

    Stop being such a chucklehead

    -shpoffo

  3. totally (absolutely, extremely) OT by zarr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I just realized I was probably only a few seconds from getting the 9000000th post! Wow! :)