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French Courts Ban DRM on DVDs
blamanj writes "According to a story on Boing-Boing, the French courts have banned DRM copy-protection on DVDs, because it is a consumer right to make a backup or to change formats (in this case, to VHS). Original story (in French) is also available."
the French make the right decision! Guess I don't have to worry about my "backed-up" DVDs then ;)
Looks like I'll be buying my movies from France here on out. It's not like the MPAA would stop selling DVD's in France...
Would they?
I like the French. They cut through the crap, and they have pretty girls. Like that court ruling that you could pirate stuff, as you'd already paid the "piracy" tax on the blank CDs. Rock on, La France.
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that since we are all gods children it is legal for me to share with my brothers and sisters via P2P.
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No wonder people called them Freedom Fries. It seems the French are endowed with the natural freedoms us Americans have become used to losing.
From this day forth, I proclaim the French to be the bravest, politest and sweetest-smelling of all Nations! Let's hope this extends to the next generation of media, also.
But the french! They hate google! They didn't support our war! They... they... put mayonnaise on their fren- freedom fries! They're freaks! They're cheese-eating surrender monkeys! I don't care if they gave us the statue of liberty or helped us in the war of independence! They... they... [head explodes]
I feel proud to be an American ripped off by good American corporations rather than a filthy Eurofag and their misguided economic and social liberalism.
You mean the big statue in New York? I guess slashdot really IS late with the news lately!
Just when I thought we had finally stopped with the overzealous* French bashing here in the US. There's no way that Bush Co. and his corporate masters will not unleash the anti-French/patriotic jingoism after a ruiling like this.
just kidding...mostly...
*I say overzealous because a little French bashing, a la The Onion's "France Surrenders" second headlines in Our Dumb Century is a good thing.
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But on the other hand, man, it's the French. I mean, really. They suck. I mean, what are they going to do, surrender to the RIAA (as a Slashbot, I don't know the difference between the RIAA and MPAA, nor am I aware that these American organizations are industry lobbying groups and are therefore completely irrelevent in every sense in the context of this story.)? The French are terrible people, I mean, the other day I read some blog that said that they hate America which they proved by not disarming Saddam Hussein of his limitless WMD arsenal. Had they done so, perhaps I wouldn't have to put Freedom Mustard in my hotdog, which sure doesn't taste as nice as the old French Mustard.
So I guess what I'm saying is that I'm torn on this one. And, really, there's only one thing I can do about my mixed feelings and the confusion this is causing me: blame the French.
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I blow my nose at you, so-called "DRM" - you and all your silly corporate supporters!
Maybe we ought to rename French DVDs as "Freedom DVDs", but this time not as a political statement, but rather because of the true freedom one has in DRM-less content.
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If you really believe in free speech you should admit that Corporations and individuals both should have the right to distribute (and sell) any kind of information they want. Anti-DRM leglisation is socialist and wrong. If citizens get too used to the government protecting them, they will have weak bullshit detectors and will become dependent on the nanny state to tell them how to be "free". As long as no person or property is physically harmed, the government should stay the fuck out of the way. Bring the DRM on!!! Let the idiotic masses pay too much for RIAA music and MPAA movies that they can only watch in very restricted ways. Anyone with at least some partially functioning cognative tissue in their heads will just find innovative indipendent artists. A new market for cheep intelligent media that allows fair use (probably distributed via the internet) will emerge.
------ Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government.
Now would be a good time to rename Freedom Fries back to French Fries ;-)
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This must be a plot to return the French language back to its world wide popularity!
a violation of the DMCA? Turning to the courts sounds like a circumvention technology to me.
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But you can't use the phrase "win-win" when talking about France... : p
The MPAA has banned DVDs in France.
... do we like the french, now?
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> > Bless you France for your gift of liberty.
> You mean the big statue in New York? I guess
> slashdot really IS late with the news lately!
Regrettably, following the wave of anti-French sentiments in the United States in the past couple of years, the Statue of Liberty was dismantled and sold off for scrap. From a news report:-
"Although it had become something of a national icon, it was felt that the French-built statue from old Europe had no place in modern America.
This was necessary to demonstrate that we had the guts to stand up for what we said, even if that meant sacrificing our statue.
Had we not been willing to back up our words in this way, actions such as the renaming of "French Fries" to "Freedom Fries" would have been seen as cheap-and-easy point scoring or kneejerk xenophobia.
Our willingness to destroy the Statue of Liberty shows that this is not the case; we have principles and when we say something, we *mean* it."
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FreeDRM Fries?
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Ummm, this is France - they have hot lesbian scenes in darned toothpaste commercials.
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I doubt the guy wants to copy the DVD. More likely he wants to edit it to put the scenes into chronological order so we can finally understand what Lynch was thinking.
Q: Where can you find 60 million French jokes? A: In France Q: How are French babies born? A: With their hands up Q: What do you call a pool table with no balls? A: French Q: How many French tanks does it take to defend Paris? A: No one knows, because they've never had to do it before.
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The reason the French and Americans don't get along is quite simple: We hate the French for thinking that they are more arrogant than we are. So there!
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Wow! That sounds remarkably like DRM!