cbs228
Geeks Of The World, Unite
join:2000-09-04
Saint Louis, MO
|  fair use?
Our rights are meaningless if we are unable to exercise them.
"What good is a phone call if you are unable to speak?" (Agent Smith, The Matrix) The DMCA makes our fair use rights irrelevant.
Consumers will not be satisfied until the media they buy performs to their expectations, not some Hollywood exec's expectations.
So here's what we want!
1. No more DRM or copy protection. Not only does it impede on our fair use rights, but dedicated pirates can and will hack, crack, or otherwise render ineffective any system anyone can devise. The idea that one cannot update old media to newer versions or protect media that one has rightfully purchased against accidental destruction is absolutely ludicrous.
2. No more unconstitutional laws! Please!
3. Fair Prices. Yes RIAA, I am talking to YOU.
4. Fair artist compensation. And don't call $0.85 out of $19.00 fair!
5. Public Domain. Copyright protection is meant to have limited terms and not unlimited terms. 75 years after the author's death is unreasonable when a patent only lasts 7. Will the next generation even know what public domain is?
6. Consumer Friendly Technology: Leave the technology research, development, and testing to the technology companies. Leave the media creation to the media companies. In doing so the growth of new, consumer friendly, technologies will be encouraged. And by consumer friendly I do not mean a player which will restrict how the user can view the media.
When this is done, the industry may flourish once again. Until then the situation will only worsen.
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If you stare too long into the abyss the abyss stares back at you. -Nietzsche |
