Show me the part of DMCA where it says that I can get authorization to circumvent the protection of a copyrighted work, from a third party who may not be acting on behalf of the copyright owner. Show me. I bet you can't.
II, B, 2, d, page marked as 45:
"The question here is whether the possibility of noninfringing fair use by someone who gains access to a protected copyrighted work through a circumvention technology distributed by the defendants saves the defendants from liability under Section 1201."
Regardless of any other moves he's made, Kaplan has accurately identified the crux of this case.
Given DMCA in its current form, the defendants are guilty.
Our collective bone is that 1201 is dumb, should have never have been passed in the first place, and need to be repealed. These remedies are not within the scope of this case at this level. I most certainly hope that the appeal is framed in such a way as to allow DMCA to be ruled unconstitutional.
First, my own non-spoiler review, then, utter spoiler answers to dmorin's questions.
If you haven't seen the movie yet, stop reading this instant, GO SEE THE MOVIE. I hadn't heard squat about the movie before going, and it rocked my world. It's certainly the most convincingly real ghost story I've ever seen, precisely because of how it was done. If the footage was contrived by moviemakers, they did an amazing job! If the footage _is_ real....
End review, begin **SPOILER** answers.
The stick-bundles were tied up with strips of Josh's flannel shirt. The little blood-soaked bundle that Heather found had several teeth in it. No, she didn't tell Mike: "I'm over here. Just washing my hands...." By the time they found the house, they were both barely rational as it was. Besides, it's possible that Josh was mangled but alive.
That _was_ Mike in the corner, but he was (supposed to be) hanging from a noose, dead.
The stick figures didn't really reference anything, but they foreshadowed Mike at the end. They did, however, spook the heck out of the campers and the audience. They prompted a large number of "oh my god..." from the audience; everyone's first clue that something's going _on_.
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Regardless of any other moves he's made, Kaplan has accurately identified the crux of this case. Given DMCA in its current form, the defendants are guilty.
Our collective bone is that 1201 is dumb, should have never have been passed in the first place, and need to be repealed. These remedies are not within the scope of this case at this level. I most certainly hope that the appeal is framed in such a way as to allow DMCA to be ruled unconstitutional.
First, my own non-spoiler review, then, utter spoiler answers to dmorin's questions.
If you haven't seen the movie yet, stop reading this instant, GO SEE THE MOVIE. I hadn't heard squat about the movie before going, and it rocked my world. It's certainly the most convincingly real ghost story I've ever seen, precisely because of how it was done. If the footage was contrived by moviemakers, they did an amazing job! If the footage _is_ real....
End review, begin **SPOILER** answers.
The stick-bundles were tied up with strips of Josh's flannel shirt. The little blood-soaked bundle that Heather found had several teeth in it. No, she didn't tell Mike: "I'm over here. Just washing my hands...." By the time they found the house, they were both barely rational as it was. Besides, it's possible that Josh was mangled but alive.
That _was_ Mike in the corner, but he was (supposed to be) hanging from a noose, dead.
The stick figures didn't really reference anything, but they foreshadowed Mike at the end. They did, however, spook the heck out of the campers and the audience. They prompted a large number of "oh my god..." from the audience; everyone's first clue that something's going _on_.
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