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Missteps made today could have grave consequences for the future, particularly when it comes to consumers' willingness to pay for movies and television shows online, she believes. To illustrate the point, she tells of her niece's fish, named Mortimer, who one day leaped from his bowl, flopped on the table and gasped for air.
"Mortimer took the leap to freedom," she said. "He said, 'I'm free, but I'm dead,' " said Ms. Antonellis.
So Ms. Antonellis, do you remember the movie "Finding Nemo"? Are you suggesting that Nemo was Free in that small fish tank? Is this the type of artificial Freedom that you advocate we "consumers" should all be happy with?
I love this analogy because it shows that the MPAA wants to convince us to stay in the fish tank when we were born in the Ocean.
The article posed the right question, "How to make movies and music more like books?". Promoting screenwriters, however, is NOT the right answer. Trying to make music and movies as inconvenient to copy as books is also NOT the right answer.
Literature is to Books
as Music is to Concerts
as Movies are to Theaters
In the information age you can't expect to have control over Literature, Music, and Movies without removing many of our personal freedoms (ie Trusted Computing, DRM, internet surveillance, etc). However, the industry still has control over access to Books, Concerts, and Theaters without infringing on any of my personal freedoms. Its just too bad that the industry is not content to have control over Books, Concerts, and Theaters. They want absolute control over the intangible as well as the tangible.
"If you choose to take your own CDs and make copies for yourself on your computer or portable music player, that's great. It's your music and we want you to enjoy it at home, at work, in the car and on the jogging trail."
The quote should be replaced with the following:
"... the fact that permission to make a copy in particular circumstances is often or even "routinely" granted, see C6 at 8, necessarily establish that the copying is a fair use when the copyright owner withholds that authorization. In this regard, the statement attributed to counsel for copyright holders in the Grokster case, is simply a statement about authorization, not about fair use."
Your website should make it clear that ripping a CD may or may not be authorized by the RIAA, yet in all cases it is a violation of copyright law and therefore illegal.
I discuss this topic frequently with others, and often refer them to the above link. Please update the information so that it will continue to be a useful reference on the legality of CD ripping.
Well, its still up on their website. Someone should let their webmaster know that their site needs updating to reflect the RIAA's new position on ripping CDs.
"If you choose to take your own CDs and make copies for yourself on your computer or portable music player, that's great. It's your music and we want you to enjoy it at home, at work, in the car and on the jogging trail."
However people may one day think the Sun rotates around the Earth but it will not change the actual truth.
I wish that people would stop using this example. If you have taken basic physics, then you would know that you can describe any motion in relation to any inertial frame.
If I take the earth as the reference frame, THEN THE SUN ROTATES AROUND THE EARTH. The previous statement is an undeniable fact, and the "actual truth". The consequence of using the earth as the center of the universe is that the math becomes MUCH more complicated. Choosing the sun as the center of the solar system makes the math easier, nothing more. "The earth rotates around the sun", is a true statement. "The sun rotates around the earth", is also a true statement. They are not contridictory, they just show that each statement assumes a different inertial frame.
If you remember your physics homework, picking the "right" inertial frame in a problem made the problem much easier to solve, however you still get a correct answer by selecting the wrong inertial frame and plugging through all of the extra math. It is NEVER WRONG to pick the earth as the center. Choosing the earth as the center just gives you more math, nothing more.
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"Mortimer took the leap to freedom," she said. "He said, 'I'm free, but I'm dead,' " said Ms. Antonellis.
So Ms. Antonellis, do you remember the movie "Finding Nemo"? Are you suggesting that Nemo was Free in that small fish tank? Is this the type of artificial Freedom that you advocate we "consumers" should all be happy with?
I love this analogy because it shows that the MPAA wants to convince us to stay in the fish tank when we were born in the Ocean.
The article posed the right question, "How to make movies and music more like books?". Promoting screenwriters, however, is NOT the right answer. Trying to make music and movies as inconvenient to copy as books is also NOT the right answer.
Literature is to Books
as Music is to Concerts
as Movies are to Theaters
In the information age you can't expect to have control over Literature, Music, and Movies without removing many of our personal freedoms (ie Trusted Computing, DRM, internet surveillance, etc). However, the industry still has control over access to Books, Concerts, and Theaters without infringing on any of my personal freedoms. Its just too bad that the industry is not content to have control over Books, Concerts, and Theaters. They want absolute control over the intangible as well as the tangible.
Here is sample text to send to webmaster@riaa.com:
The web page http://www.riaa.com/issues/ask/default.asp#stand needs to be updated. Specifically the following quote needs to be removed to reflect the RIAA's new stand on fair use:
"If you choose to take your own CDs and make copies for yourself on your computer or portable music player, that's great. It's your music and we want you to enjoy it at home, at work, in the car and on the jogging trail."
The quote should be replaced with the following:
"... the fact that permission to make a copy in particular circumstances is often or even "routinely" granted, see C6 at 8, necessarily establish that the copying is a fair use when the copyright owner withholds that authorization. In this regard, the statement attributed to counsel for copyright holders in the Grokster case, is simply a statement about authorization, not about fair use."
Your website should make it clear that ripping a CD may or may not be authorized by the RIAA, yet in all cases it is a violation of copyright law and therefore illegal.
I discuss this topic frequently with others, and often refer them to the above link. Please update the information so that it will continue to be a useful reference on the legality of CD ripping.
Well, its still up on their website. Someone should let their webmaster know that their site needs updating to reflect the RIAA's new position on ripping CDs.
http://www.riaa.com/issues/ask/default.asp#stand
"If you choose to take your own CDs and make copies for yourself on your computer or portable music player, that's great. It's your music and we want you to enjoy it at home, at work, in the car and on the jogging trail."
However people may one day think the Sun rotates around the Earth but it will not change the actual truth.
I wish that people would stop using this example. If you have taken basic physics, then you would know that you can describe any motion in relation to any inertial frame.
If I take the earth as the reference frame, THEN THE SUN ROTATES AROUND THE EARTH. The previous statement is an undeniable fact, and the "actual truth". The consequence of using the earth as the center of the universe is that the math becomes MUCH more complicated. Choosing the sun as the center of the solar system makes the math easier, nothing more. "The earth rotates around the sun", is a true statement. "The sun rotates around the earth", is also a true statement. They are not contridictory, they just show that each statement assumes a different inertial frame.
If you remember your physics homework, picking the "right" inertial frame in a problem made the problem much easier to solve, however you still get a correct answer by selecting the wrong inertial frame and plugging through all of the extra math. It is NEVER WRONG to pick the earth as the center. Choosing the earth as the center just gives you more math, nothing more.
The sun does rotate around the earth!