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Re: Copyright/Fair use question
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 8 Feb 2002 22:55:11 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> > what about the manufacturer's "right" to sell a product compatible with only
> > one type of hardware?
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> Like DVD region issues? Yikes! Talk about shooting themselves in the foot
I agree it's limiting their own sales more than anything else, but much as I
dislike the idea, I think they have the right to distribute DVDs as they see
fit. Of course with so many non-region DVD players still available, it's a
pretty ineffective "solution".
Note also that CSS (the DVD enryption scheme) doesn't stop pirating - the
DVD can still be copied in it's encrypted entirety - it just can't be
decrypted (played) except on a player with the correct region setting.
The important thing it's shown is that US authorities are able to detain
people from other countries for making public methods of circumvention. A
rather nasty precedent, IMO.
ROSCO
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| (...) Like DVD region issues? Yikes! Talk about shooting themselves in the foot... I go with the book license as suggested by Frank -- I own a copy of a thing, how I use it is up to me. If I own the song on vinyl -- I can dupe it to CD or MP3. (...) (23 years ago, 8-Feb-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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