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MPAA Wants Filmmakers To Pay Licenses, Not Rip Blu-rays (torrentfreak.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Late last year several filmmaker groups asked the US Copyright Office to lift some of the current DMCA circumvention restrictions, so they can rip and use clips from Blu-rays and other videos without repercussions. In the US, people risk bypassing DMCA's anti-circumvention when they rip a DVD or Blu-ray disc. (There are some exemptions, such as educational and other types of fair use, but the line between legal and illegal is not always clear, some argue.) Not everyone agrees with this assessment though. A group of "joint creators and copyright owners" which includes Hollywood's MPAA, the RIAA, and ESA don't think this is a good idea and point out that filmmakers have plenty of other options. The MPAA and the other groups point out that the exemption could be used by filmmakers to avoid paying licensing fees, which can be quite expensive.
People still use Blue-Rays for other uses than coffee coasters? Amazing.
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Pro-tip: Hitler would have had retards like you in the gas chambers before he'd even got round to Jews. Or medical experiments more like."Zis creature - how does it live, viz less zan half a brain?"