Comments on: Will DVD acquittal mean tougher copyright laws?

The acquittal of a Norwegian programmer charged with breaking Hollywood's DVD encryption scheme could increase the entertainment industry's efforts to enact tougher global copyright laws.

why

why is there such a fuss over the copy right laws? if you pay say 10 dollars to make a copy for home use ,that should cover it you do the same for tv no one is complaining about this are they? i dont think so rent movies even for admission films incorporated does this ,private showings as long not interfer with gen public showing same film each time you look at movie at home actors are supposed to get paid for it. are they i dont think it is possible for this to happen doing it out on the streets is always going to be a problem but to prevent people at home to do it is infrigement freedom of speech i think i have a dvd player and i have found that with certain movies can rec vcr

why

why is there such a fuss over the copy right laws? if you pay say 10 dollars to make a copy for home use ,that should cover it you do the same for tv no one is complaining about this are they? i dont think so rent movies even for admission films incorporated does this ,private showings as long not interfer with gen public showing same film each time you look at movie at home actors are supposed to get paid for it. are they i dont think it is possible for this to happen doing it out on the streets is always going to be a problem but to prevent people at home to do it is infrigement freedom of speech i think i have a dvd player and i have found that with certain movies can rec vcr

[Ed.Hanson]

the copyright system is badly broken

I am not an American but I am very concerned with the state of copyright law these days, and how the almighty US of A is pressuring everybody to create similarly Draconian laws. I am particularly concerned about the law as it relates to DVDs. I am well aware that the DMCA, brilliant law that it is, says it is illegal to circumvent copy protection, even for heretofore legal purposes, but exactly how would I be doing anyone any harm by making personal backup copies of DVDs that I have legally purchased? The only reason I would do this in the first place is so that I can use the copy on a regular basis and store the original for safekeeping so that it doesn?t get damaged.

As I understand it, when I buy a DVD, I don?t own the contents of said disc but rather am granted a personal license to access it. Yet if the medium (the disc) is damaged, I can no longer access the content so the license for which I paid good money is worthless. However, since I still have the legally purchased license to view the content, the medium on which it is stored should be irrelevant.

I am sure the MPAA would say ?just go to the store and buy another copy so we can get more money out of you? but most of us don?t have their deep pockets, not to mention the fact that new DVD releases are ridiculously overpriced as it is, compared to what it costs to manufacture them. And don?t even get me started on movie theatre ticket prices.

The movie industry would have you believe that the reason this law exists is to thwart piracy. However, anyone with any sense at all and even a slight understanding of the situation knows that the only people who are in any way inconvenienced by this are legitimate users who only want to be able to use their DVDs, for personal purposes, on their own terms, whenever and wherever they choose. The means to get around this ?copy restriction?, as Cory Doctorow puts it, has been available for some time and anyone with any technical savvy at all knows where to find it and how to use it. The horse has left the barn and is long gone. Also, large-scale pirate operations just laugh as laws like this. It won?t have any effect on them at all as far as I can see.

To paraphrase Leo Laporte, with whom I share this opinion, copy protection doesn?t work. It never has and it never will. The sooner the movie industry realizes this, the better. Making criminals out of the very people who put money in your pocket is, how shall I put this... royally stupid.

If anyone from the MPAA reads this, I invite them to reply.

[Ed.Hanson]

the copyright system is badly broken

I am not an American but I am very concerned with the state of copyright law these days, and how the almighty US of A is pressuring everybody to create similarly Draconian laws. I am particularly concerned about the law as it relates to DVDs. I am well aware that the DMCA, brilliant law that it is, says it is illegal to circumvent copy protection, even for heretofore legal purposes, but exactly how would I be doing anyone any harm by making personal backup copies of DVDs that I have legally purchased? The only reason I would do this in the first place is so that I can use the copy on a regular basis and store the original for safekeeping so that it doesn?t get damaged.

As I understand it, when I buy a DVD, I don?t own the contents of said disc but rather am granted a personal license to access it. Yet if the medium (the disc) is damaged, I can no longer access the content so the license for which I paid good money is worthless. However, since I still have the legally purchased license to view the content, the medium on which it is stored should be irrelevant.

I am sure the MPAA would say ?just go to the store and buy another copy so we can get more money out of you? but most of us don?t have their deep pockets, not to mention the fact that new DVD releases are ridiculously overpriced as it is, compared to what it costs to manufacture them. And don?t even get me started on movie theatre ticket prices.

The movie industry would have you believe that the reason this law exists is to thwart piracy. However, anyone with any sense at all and even a slight understanding of the situation knows that the only people who are in any way inconvenienced by this are legitimate users who only want to be able to use their DVDs, for personal purposes, on their own terms, whenever and wherever they choose. The means to get around this ?copy restriction?, as Cory Doctorow puts it, has been available for some time and anyone with any technical savvy at all knows where to find it and how to use it. The horse has left the barn and is long gone. Also, large-scale pirate operations just laugh as laws like this. It won?t have any effect on them at all as far as I can see.

To paraphrase Leo Laporte, with whom I share this opinion, copy protection doesn?t work. It never has and it never will. The sooner the movie industry realizes this, the better. Making criminals out of the very people who put money in your pocket is, how shall I put this... royally stupid.

If anyone from the MPAA reads this, I invite them to reply.