Ok let me deal with your arguments, I'll assume that you are in the U.S. because I'm most familiar with its laws, that's where the MPAA is based, and that's where the court cases are taking place.
But despite all that, it really does boil down to someone seeing what the MPAA did not want to be seen.
The fact is under U.S. copyright law I am allowed to do whatever I want with copyrighted material that I have legally acquired, so long as I do not ditribute it, or publically perform it. So for personal use only copying is completely legal. The MPAA can not take away my rights to view copyrighted material on any media I choose unless I sign away those rights in a negotiated contract.
If they didn't care about their monopoly or copyright protection they wouldn't have bothered to encrypt it.
They have copyright protection whether or not they encrypt, they can still go after people illegally distributing movies.
And while DVD copying makes no sense right now, use some common sense: DVD copiers and disc's will go down in price. They won't be this expensive forever. As for the monopoly, you don't fix a bad thing by doing another bad thing (although I know someone is going to argue cracking DSS isn't a bad thing).
This is true however see my above points.
Let the MPAA do what it wants to do with the things IT created. It owns the stuff, and all DeCSS does is steal the intellectual property of the MPAA.
Again copying is not stealing, it is what you do with the copies that is illegal. No one went to jail for creating a copy, just the distribution, or intent to do so.
You are an agent of the MPAA or one of its members. You are trying to create posts to cite in the court cases against people. If you will not acknowledge the fact that you are an agent of the MPAA, will you please leave?
I've seen pictures of KDE using a Hebrew character set with right to left. I don't think it would be too hard to modify it to use Arabic characters because the hard parts have already been coded.
So what if you have to pay for the machine yourself? Then you can put your own advertising on the case. That way you can subsidize it through the universty's marketing budget, and also sell some outside ads. A vending machine would be a great place to stick two or three ads, especially if you did some research and served the drinks that the students actually liked, and at reasonable prices.
All they have to do is not sign an exclusive agreement contract and hire someone to man the machines for them. If they subcontrct out the whole thing they could have Coke and Pepsi products in the same machine with no problems. Their is no law against selling competing products from the same vending machine.
Slashdot Mirror
Ok let me deal with your arguments, I'll assume that you are in the U.S. because I'm most familiar with its laws, that's where the MPAA is based, and that's where the court cases are taking place.
But despite all that, it really does boil down to someone seeing what the MPAA did not want to be seen.
The fact is under U.S. copyright law I am allowed to do whatever I want with copyrighted material that I have legally acquired, so long as I do not ditribute it, or publically perform it. So for personal use only copying is completely legal. The MPAA can not take away my rights to view copyrighted material on any media I choose unless I sign away those rights in a negotiated contract.
If they didn't care about their monopoly or copyright protection they wouldn't have bothered to encrypt it.
They have copyright protection whether or not they encrypt, they can still go after people illegally distributing movies.
And while DVD copying makes no sense right now, use some common sense: DVD copiers and disc's will go down in price. They won't be this expensive forever. As for the monopoly, you don't fix a bad thing by doing another bad thing (although I know someone is going to argue cracking DSS isn't a bad thing).
This is true however see my above points.
Let the MPAA do what it wants to do with the things IT created. It owns the stuff, and all DeCSS does is steal the intellectual property of the MPAA.
Again copying is not stealing, it is what you do with the copies that is illegal. No one went to jail for creating a copy, just the distribution, or intent to do so.
You are an agent of the MPAA or one of its members. You are trying to create posts to cite in the court cases against people. If you will not acknowledge the fact that you are an agent of the MPAA, will you please leave?
I've seen pictures of KDE using a Hebrew character set with right to left. I don't think it would be too hard to modify it to use Arabic characters because the hard parts have already been coded.
So what if you have to pay for the machine yourself? Then you can put your own advertising on the case. That way you can subsidize it through the universty's marketing budget, and also sell some outside ads. A vending machine would be a great place to stick two or three ads, especially if you did some research and served the drinks that the students actually liked, and at reasonable prices.
All they have to do is not sign an exclusive agreement contract and hire someone to man the machines for them. If they subcontrct out the whole thing they could have Coke and Pepsi products in the same machine with no problems. Their is no law against selling competing products from the same vending machine.