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MPAA Sues DVD Chip Manufacturers
WhatAmIDoingHere writes "The Motion Picture Association of America has sued two chip manufacturing companies for selling integrated circuits to manufacturers that produce non-approved DVD players."
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It's still pretty easy to make DVD player region-free. I mean, it's not illegal to modify your own hardware now is it? Is this where they are going now?
Hmmm.
Aw man, and here I thought they were learning the right lesson from the RIAA's example.
*attemps to keep a straight face*
--- "Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view." ~ Ben Kenobi, 'Return of the Jedi'
Oh dear god, how could a Reuters article make such a stupid mistake?
"...which claims its members loose billions of dollars annually to copyright piracy".
*Sigh*
Guns: Sacred and necessary
Devices which inadvertently allow consumers to exercise fair use rights: Dangerous and damaging
Argh!! This is a professional news outfit, and:
claims its members loose billions of dollars annually
Lose people, not loose. Jeez.
but not unexpected, over 10% of Americans are functional illiterates and are 68th on the global general literacy (total population) scale
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turn off that TV and get reading folks
People are so sue-happy now a days. Any little thing, people sue over it now...
What ever happened to the good ol' days where you would just get a couple friends, a couple baseball bats and crowbars, and 'leaving a message' instead of suing...
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Yes, and if you live in Amerika as I do, then you are guilty of publishing information that describes how to bypass copy-protection measures. I believe that is also prohibited.
I love how one month they're (the MPAA) claiming the highest profits they've ever had.
And the next month, "Piracy is ruining the industry!"
I just can't understand how these people think.
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
Can I sue them for My First 50 Dates?
If you think
I'm sure they've got some harebrained legal theory, but the MPAA is hurting its member companies just to hold up legal fictions.
They could just sent a browser popup or a Messenger window pop up to every IP address on the internet telling the user that the RIAA has filed a lawsuit against them for violating the DMCA by using technology invented after 1965.
The usuals suspects: Sorny, Magnetbox, Panaphonics...
Don't sue me Matt Groening, please!
[ I can not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presents danger, the solution is ignorance ] -- Isaac Asimov
MPAA Sues DVD Chip Manufacturers For Making Things People Want To Buy
There has GOT to be some legal precedent set somewhere that says "You cannot be sued for making or selling something that is legal when someone else does something illegal, unlawful or otherwise infinging on the rights of others using it."
You have a lot to learn about law (especially in the US), young grasshopper. Sit down at your local library and read.
They plan to make it up in volume.
Thanks to Intellectual Property, the feudal system lives!
Hunt thou not in the King's Forest, knave! Double not thy clicks, nor singly if for commerce they be. Scribe ye not the holy GIF format, nor the code of Linux employ within thine enterprise, lest ye suffer sorely in combat with the royal tort attorneys!
"Pretty soon you will have to buy DVD players from the motion picture companies"
Sooner, these companies will realize that people know they do not "have to" buy a goddamned thing.
I think your point was: you can use a pair of bolt cutters to get into your own shed you lost the key to. Just as you should be able to use a program to decrypt and remove the MacroVision bit from DVDs you own.
Incorrect, commie.
According to the RIAA, you should simply buy a new shed.
The CSS license pact has aided the success of DVDs because it has provided protection against illegal copying to copyright owners of movies, television shows and other content sold on DVD.
Yeah, it protects the HELL out of em...
Why? If you're going to sell at a loss, why sell at all?
They plan to make it up in volume.
Sweet, if you're going to lose money, you might as well do it in volume.
Find me somewhere I can download a hardware DVD player and I'll be a happy man :)
I can't agree with that statement. The pirate receives something (a string of bits, an idea, a computer file, whatever) and gives nothing in exchange. The pirate has acquired something that, by all rights, he should have paid for.
Umm... you are reading Slashot, aren't you? You've just acquired some stings of bits, some ideas, and some computer files and have given nothing in exchange.
THIEF!!!
Kaa
Kaa's Law: In any sufficiently large group of people most are idiots.
Actually, regional DVD's aren't about price fixing as much as it has to do with selling rights.
Exactly -- just as with book publishing, where if the publisher only has, say "North American rights", he uses region encoding on the book so that even if a copy makes its way overseas, nobody can read it.
Oh, wait...
-- Alastair
If you were going to pirate a DVD, wouldn't you copy it to a DVD-ARRRRRRR.
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