Mr Matt
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| Giving the RIAA Ammunition for Music Sharing Tax.  I am constantly irritated by efforts of the RIAA and other copyright holders to add a fee to my Internet Bill because irresponsible douche bags insist on allowing copyrighted material to be uploaded from their computers. All these people do is give the RIAA and other copyright holders ammunition to add more draconian measures to hardware and software to prevent consumers from copying music, that they have legally purchased for their personal use. If this trend continues, devices like MP3 Players would be rendered useless. Billy Boy, in order to kiss up to the copyright holders, has infected Windows Vista with various DRM enforcement cops which have a potential of preventing consumers from copying material that they have legally purchased and want to copy for backup under fair use. On the other hand the copyright holders have claimed that innovations to make music and movies more useful, are copyright infringing and sued the creators of the devices out of business. A balance should be restored to the copyright laws giving the purchaser of copyrighted material, the right copy those materials on other devices for their own use. |
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KearnstdElf WizardPremium
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | US Copyright law already gives me permission to make copies for personal use. i could rip DVDs and Blu-Rays to my PC if i so chose to because US Copyright law says i can under fair use as long as it's for personal usage.
how about the RIAA and MPAA run tighter shops? why was i able to get a DVD quality copy of Transformers once two days after it hit theaters? simple the movie company couldnt run a tight shop and that somehow got out.
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Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA | said by Kearnstd:i could rip DVDs and Blu-Rays to my PC if i so chose to because US Copyright law says i can under fair use as long as it's for personal usage. US Copyright law says no such thing and ripping encrypted DVDs and Blu-Rays may be a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. |
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shark2k
join:2008-06-01
West Orange, NJ | said by Sammer:said by Kearnstd:i could rip DVDs and Blu-Rays to my PC if i so chose to because US Copyright law says i can under fair use as long as it's for personal usage. US Copyright law says no such thing and ripping encrypted DVDs and Blu-Rays may be a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Actually I'm pretty sure it does, but the problem comes in that the breaking the encryption is illegal. If there was no encryption, there would be no illegal activity.
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