It is a known fact that some 'most favored trading nations' are abusing US corporations IP rights (copying manufacturing masters without permission or compensation for example). This is present in the software industry as well as other industries.
Are there any plans to address these infractions, and is so, what are they? How effective do you think that these actions will be? Are there any planned responses shuold these measures fail?
Pulling video out of a TiVo and burning it on a DVD is just the same as taping the TiVo show onto VHS tape. The only difference is the media.
Now if you go and give (make available for download or copies on DVD) the recorded shows to multiple people it's distribution, and I'll wager that it'd be as illegal to do this with VHS tape as it is with DVDs or MPEG files.
The usable time to live quality feature of a VHS protected it more than the infinately copyable DVDs, so I figure that the DVD copies may very well get more attention than VHS.
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It is a known fact that some 'most favored trading nations' are abusing US corporations IP rights (copying manufacturing masters without permission or compensation for example). This is present in the software industry as well as other industries. Are there any plans to address these infractions, and is so, what are they? How effective do you think that these actions will be? Are there any planned responses shuold these measures fail?
Pulling video out of a TiVo and burning it on a DVD is just the same as taping the TiVo show onto VHS tape. The only difference is the media. Now if you go and give (make available for download or copies on DVD) the recorded shows to multiple people it's distribution, and I'll wager that it'd be as illegal to do this with VHS tape as it is with DVDs or MPEG files. The usable time to live quality feature of a VHS protected it more than the infinately copyable DVDs, so I figure that the DVD copies may very well get more attention than VHS.