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Proposed Amendment Would Ban All DVD Copying

Posted by kdawson on from the not-your-bits dept.

Ynefel writes in with a PC Magazine article reporting that the DVD Copy Control Association is considering an amendment to the agreement equipment vendors must abide by, which would completely ban all DVD backups, whether fair use or not, and prevent DVDs from playing without the DVD disk being present in the drive. The amendment is being voted on imminently and if approved would go into effect within 18 months. Quoting: "The proposed amendment was made public in a letter sent by Michael Malcolm, the chief executive of Kaleidescape, a DVD jukebox company which successfully defeated a suit by the DVD CCA this past March."

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  1. oh noze by allforcarrie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    0h noz meh dvd are the h4x0r!

  2. Re:the real reason for a drop in sales? by raw-sewage · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    go to your favorite movie rental place... of the hundreds of movies on the new release wall we saw 3 that interested us

    Has anyone else noticed that Steven Seagal has a dis-proportionate number of "new releases"? Seriously, every time I'm in the video store scanning the new releases, there's a Steven Seagal flick every few columns.

    I used to like his movies as a kid... but if you've seen one, you've seen them all. They always feature that one scene where he walks into a bar with a large front-facing window. The bar is dark and brooding. Someone makes a comment about his pony tail. The camera switches to the street view and someone comes flying out of the bar through the window. Cut back to the bar with Seagal kicking all kinds of ass.