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MPAA Makes Unauthorized Copies of DVD
An anonymous reader writes "There's a story on ArsTechnica about how the MPAA has admitted that they made unauthorized copies of a movie. That in itself is a bit of tasty hypocrisy, but if it turns out that they ripped a DVD, then the MPAA could find themselves in violation of the DMCA." From the article: "According to Mark Lemley, a professor at the Stanford Law School, the MPAA may have been within its rights to make copies of the film. Given that the MPAA's intent isn't financial gain and that the whole situation may rise above the level of trading barbs through the media into legal action, making a copy may be justified. Personally, I can't see any justification for an organization such as the MPAA ignoring a directive from a copyright owner, but IANAL." Update: 01/24 19:52 GMT by Z : Made title more accurate.
.... The MPAA will have to sue themselves?
This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
"Not even MPAA employees give a **** about DMCA".
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Meself, I'm thinking more of Priests telling their congregations not to have illicit sex... ;)
With spending like this, exactly what are "conservatives" conserving?
Ahem, wouldn't that be considered a verbal contract? He submits the DVD and says "Do not copy, please." Or does he have to explicitly say, "DON'T FUCKING COPY THIS MOVIE YOU FUCKS!" and have them sign it for it to be a contract?
Signature __________________,
by MPAA FUCK
More precisely, they are often copied not for financial gain but to curb financial loss.
Can we then reserve the right to consider our next action "accelerated oxidation of their physical resources coincident with carbon reclamation," rather than "burning their fucking headquarters to the ground with everyone locked inside"?
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Title: MPAA Makes Illegal Copies of DVD
Hey, I make illegal copies too! Maybe they'd like to get together so we can trade. I wonder if they have Land of the Dead yet...
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but IANAL
Good for you, but I don't see how your sexual leanings have anything to do with copyright violations.
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Didn't you get the memo? The movies on file sharing sites all have stegonographically encrypted bomb making instructions in them to give to the terrorists in Al Qaeda in exchange for the money which is used to buy the drugs which are given to the school children for posing in the child pornography which is stored on the computers of the innocent after they're broken into with the hacking tools that come with Linux. It should have all been explained in the Evil People's Ten Steps to Victory flier that came with your Debian installation. Didn't you get one?
According to Mark Lemley, a professor at the Stanford Law School, the MPAA may have been within its rights to make copies of the film. Given that the MPAA's intent isn't financial gain...
So, that's okay then? Please, please, please...say that's ok. Just once. We won't hold you to it in the future. Honest!
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rediculous.
The MPAA will take themselves to court. Following their standard procedures, they will then delay proceedings, forcing the opposing party (themselves) to run out of funding for lawyers. Eventually, they will win by default because they can no longer afford the necessary fees. From their new HQ, under a bridge, they will issue a public statement in the form of cardboard and permanent marker.
Prove it.
"Or at most be something we point to for the next five years or until the MPAA does something else stupid, whichever comes first."
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So you mean about two minutes then, right?
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He must be a Red Hat user.
"The courts recognize that parties are entitled to make a copy of a work for use as evidence in possible future proceedings,"
Hmmm. OK. I'm going to make a backup copy of all my DVDs, but not for the purpose of protecting them from kids, being dropped, or other potential abuses that cold ruin them. I'm going to copy them for the purpose of the copies being used as evidence in some possible future legal proceedings. Hey, if they find out I copied aa DVD and sue me for it, surely this copy will be used by them against me as evidence in court proceedings, no? Does it matter that it's evidence for or against me, so long as its evidence of some kind? A possible loophole?? Bwaahaahaa!
But now that this article has surfaced, I want to see it, to see if it really does have graphic secual content, or if the MPAA was just trying to hush a movie.
I'll save you the trouble and personally guarentee that it does not have graphic secual content.
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The MPAA, in response to questions regarding the rating, defended the rating, saying "The rating was appropriately assigned and is just, as it clearly exposes some of the biggest dicks in the industry."
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No more perfect way to quash piracy but to report it to the MPAA. http://www.mpaa.org/ReportPiracy.asp
...The MPAA would say "Oh dear..." and vanish in a puff of logic.
Unfortunately, I do not believe this to be the case in our frame of reference.
--Storm