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Movie Studios Unveil New Anti-Piracy Lab
PaulusMagnus writes "According to the BBC Walt Disney, Sony, Paramount, Warner Bros, Universal and 20th Century Fox have formed a new organisation called the Motion Picture Laboratories. They've also given them a nice tidy sum of US$30m to play with to develop new technologies to combat piracy." From the article: "There are thousands of new concepts floating around the hi-tech community about how to develop tools to fight piracy ... Researching and developing these technologies now will help save the major studios and other motion picture producers and distributors money in the future."
So basically movies are really expensive because of President Bush. Maybe you and your commie friends can get together, start some sort of communal farm and raise that $30,000. Or, you can sit around and bitch. You seem pretty good at it already!
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If your kid wrecked your car would you demand a new free one?
anti-"fair use" lab.
calling it fair use is a bit incorrect, since having purchased a copyrighted product, you ARE ENTITLED to use it any way you wish.
fair use is for people who haven't purchased it i.e. quoting small passages, using small clips of video/audio etc.
this is yet another way for the cartels to say "fu** you, you consumer piece of shi* a**hole".
i recall Carlin saying something similar in one of his performances.
get the word out about what the MPAA/RIAA really are, not that suing poor families selectively isn't doing the same thing.
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