MPAA Warns of Next Round → It won't stop the piracy...

The MPAA and RIAA are seeing visions of granjour(sp?) if they think that any of the legislation or technology will stop the copying. Someone, somewhere will always find a way around it.

Most movies are pirated by the people who use a camcorder in a movie theater. The few movies I saw on-line were of such poor quality, that it would have been much easier and cheaper for me to rent a DVD from Blockbuster and using a Macrovision stripper, copy it to VHS!

I will not waste time downloading movies from the Internet.

Besides, not having Broadband is a big limit in any file trading. Maybe the MPAA and RIAA should just ban high speed internet access altogether!

Any MP3s I have were made from CDs I have, which I bought at Pawn Shops, or borrowed from friends.

What about the Fair Use Agreement? Any copy protection they place in movies, music, television, radio, etc., most likely will violate the Fair Use Agreement! Only time and the Supreme Court will tell.

said by phxmark:

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Any MP3s I have were made from CDs I have, which I bought at Pawn Shops, or borrowed from friends.

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RIAA would argue that you are a pirate.

Pawn Shop: they were not paid an additional license fee when the CDs were sold from their original "owner" to the Pawn Shop, and again when the Pawn Shop sold them to you. They're wrong of course, but that's what they would argue.

MP3s from borrowed CDs: the MPAA would have a pretty decent argument against you. Fair Use allows the original "owner" to make personal non-commercial copies for their own use. But you were not the "owner" of those CDs so your MP3 copies are technically in violation of copyright.

I put "owner" in quotes because under copyright law you really don't own the stuff. You OWN the media (the actual plastic disk or video tape) but you have only purchased a LICENSE to play the song or movie encoded on that media. You don't really own the song or movie; the artist and/or the studio owns it.

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Most movies are pirated by the people who use a camcorder in a movie theater. The few movies I saw on-line were of such poor quality, that it would have been much easier and cheaper for me to rent a DVD from Blockbuster and using a Macrovision stripper, copy it to VHS!

I will not waste time downloading movies from the Internet
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No offense to you but there are many DVD QUALITY movies readily available on the net. Obviously you dont know where to look. True, the majority of brand new releases(just came out in theatres) will be telesyncs, but if you know the right releases to get, some are quite good. I personally only deal with SVCD-dvdrips. They play in my standalone player on my entertainment center and look identical to dvd quality. I even rip my own from rentals if its a good enough movie. I goto theatres too, but some movies like star wars and Spiderman arent available in rental for months, so I get a nice rip of them.

So for that $20 I spend for a CD, $19.90 goes to licensing the content? I guess if I already own the album on cassette then I only need to spend 10 cents for the CD version. Right?

As always they want it both ways. And that's fine, I'll have it both ways too.