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MGM Concedes Some Fair-Use Rights Exist

Posted by timothy on from the how-very-gracious-of-them dept.

jambarama writes "MGM seems to have given a little in the Grokster case. After getting nailed on the possible implications of banning P2P software, they've now admitted it is perfectly legal to rip one's own CD and store it. Is this a return to the stripped down 'fair use' rights or a temporary court concession?"

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  1. Thank you, MGM by Dorsai65 · · Score: 5, Funny

    for giving me my rights back.[/sarcasm]

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    1. Re:Thank you, MGM by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Then you were created by mommy and daddy, and they give you those rights :-P

  2. Re:Mod me down. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    No, that's just what he's expecting. Give him +5 funny.

  3. Re:editors ... by SouperIan · · Score: 2, Funny

    http://humorix.org/articles/2005/04/slashdot-edito rs/ Nah. I don't think they're supposed to edit.

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  4. Re:editors ... by whoever57 · · Score: 2, Funny
    Come on, you could atleast make sure the title is spelled correctly

    Come on, you could, at least, make sure that your own criticism is spelled correctly.

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  5. Re:Omigod! by ozric99 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Good. Hopefully it'll be too dark to witness our destruction...

  6. Re:The Constitution was meant to protect the rich by SilverspurG · · Score: 2, Funny
    The Founding Fathers were slaveowners, slave rapers, beaters of white servants
    Right... because it's always a good idea to have a house and land full of people who are so degraded that they're plotting to knife you in the back and don't care if they get drawn and quartered afterwards.

    Haven't we picked you up as an antipatriotic malcontent terrorist yet?
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  7. Re:The Constitution was meant to protect the rich by cgenman · · Score: 2, Funny

    Haven't we picked you up as an antipatriotic malcontent terrorist yet?

    Already done. He wrote that from prison on his PSP.

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  8. Re:MGM OKs Ripping [Re:Thank you, MGM] by l0b0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    The fact that its impossible to make it uncopyable without making it unlistenable won't stop them from trying.

    They're already doing this. Haven't you seen the latest MTV Top 20?