<<The RIAA/MPAA wants to convince us that it's _not_ "our stuff". It's their stuff and they get to control how/when/where/etc. we can use it.<<
This has been a pet peeve of mine lately. I relate it to owning a house in the Los Angelos area. If you want to make any changes to the property or house you have to have written consent from the local municipality and then of course have the work inspected where you can be ordered to reverse it for nothing more than it is not asthetically pleasing. In LA you may own the house, but you do not own the ability to change it. I understand why there are copyrights. People like money. Regardless of how much someone may or may not have they will usually want more. If everyone is allowed to "backup" DVD's then the less moral element would claim that their backups where stolen by their friends, and that they never made them copies. Personally I don't believe any new additions to current laws will stop the average person who is already illegally copying movies. What about legitimate backups? Even though most people would not do this, in my cynical view I see it as a percieved threat too the industry. The more copies you have that can get lost, scratched, worn out, demolished by your child, eaten by your pet iguana, or mearly put in the microwave will all be one less copy you have to purchase to replace an older one. This means less money for them and thus more laws for us. :: Steps down from his abused soap box :: -----Original Message----- From: Phillip Hellewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: BYU Unix Users Group <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 22:59:42 -0700 Subject: Re: [uug] DVD backup question > Probably a stupid question, but if I have a DVD to back up, and I have > a dual-layer burner, could I just use dd to create an image of the > DVD, then burn that image? > > I don't have a DVD to back up, or a dual-layer burner at the moment, I > was just thinking how that would allow you to backup your DVD without > breaking the DMCA. (At least, I think it would). How would it break the DMCA? You're not circumventing their dumb encryption. And what about fair use? It's kind of said that everyone seems to have succumbed to the RIAA/MPAA's reality that we are all criminals for wanting to back up our stuff. The RIAA/MPAA wants to convince us that it's _not_ "our stuff". It's their stuff and they get to control how/when/where/etc. we can use it. I say it's time to take back our rights. This has gone way to far if we think we are not even entitled to make a backup copy of a DVD that we paid for, even when we aren't going to decrypt the dumb CSS or anything. We need to do something before it is too late. I'm not saying we should be allowed to download something we haven't paid for (although I don't agree that the punishment they are handing out right now really fits the crime), but why should big corporations be allowed to abuse copyright law the point that it takes away our fair use rights? It's outrageous! And most of us are letting them get away with it without raising an eyebrow! It's like they're boiling frogs by slowly raising the temperature, and we are all the frogs. We won't know what happened until it's too late. I have a feeling things are going to get worse before they get better, (sigh)... Phillip P.S. At least we all got mad at Sony for their evil rootkit. P.S.S. I gotta stop reading slashdot now... -- Phillip Hellewell <phillip AT hellewell.homeip.net> -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
