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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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The French are invaded by the MPAA. Resistance crumbles within the hour.
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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.
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]
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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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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Ummm, this is France - they have hot lesbian scenes in darned toothpaste commercials.
... and then they built the supercollider.
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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