Apparently very upset at the news aggregate site for deleting articles containing a key that could be used to crack the digital rights management on HD DVDs, Digg users inundate the site with thousands of recommendations to pages that contain the code.
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centered, child. This action taken by these children are going to
drive thousands of mature, level headed Digg users away.
Resulting in a complete destruction and demise of Digg.
There have already been hundreds of Pro- Code post talking
about how Digg has sold out and caved in to big business...
result many have left the site feeling betrayed. And there have
already been hundreds of post stating that they are closing their
Digg account because they feel Digg has been over run by
children behaving badly... result many more have left the site.
With reports of submissions "Rigged" to go the the Digg front
page. Moderators deleting post that "Digg" disagrees with, and
now this I wonder if Digg will survive. And if it does it what way
will it be changed.
At the surface, it may seem that your analysis is an easy one. However, if one examines the actions of the MPAA, one sees that their actions, through using an overly restrictive DRM scheme that actually artificially restricts the fair use rights of its customers, is the real reason for this protest by Digg users.
Call it the market in action, if you will. These are people that are angry that they are forced by the MPAA to submit to buying DRM-laced products that deny them the fair use rights that the law allows. This is their way of letting the MPAA know that they are angry and want that DRM removed.
I think, though, that Digg, as a site, may be protected by the law as an independent provider of a forum where users can submit content. Obviously, they are not in full control of their own site, so they may be able to fend off any attack by the MPAA. Time will tell.
Breaching DRM was not illegal before the DMCA and more and more provisions are added to it each day to re-enable our rights to fair use. I supposed you also support gangs that use extortion for "protection services". Because that is exactly what media companies do: they step beyond their authority to scare people into doing this when they have no legal leg to stand on.
I now have more respect for Digg.com, who is willing to stand up for their rights: even if their users had to protect for it to happen.
You are assuming that anyone who wants to use this key is a criminal and wants to steal content, but that is not the case. The problem is two-fold. First, the decryption keys are only available for Mac and Windows. Anyone using an open source operating system like Free/Net/Open-BSD or Linux cannot play their LEGALLY PURCHASED DVD-HD movies without this key being available. Second, their is a "Fair Use" provision in U.S. copyright law that states that it is perfectly legal to make archival copies of any legally acquired content you own, so long as you do not make the "archives" available to others.
The MPAA is trying to prevent either of these legal, reasonable uses of DVD-HD disks.
Like you, I have no sympathy for P2P file sharers who want to acquire music, movies, etc. in violation of copyright law. Unfortunately, what you and the MPAA seem to have forgotten is that not everyone who wants to use these encryption keys wants to use them to infringe upon copyright.
Also, arguments have been made in the past ad Nauseum that the copying of a movie for archival purposes or for media transformation falls under "fair use" in the US, regardless of the wording of the rather draconian DMCA, so the use that the code in question might be put to is not necessarily "illegal", at least when viewer in the spirit of past laws (the AHRA, etc.).
their intelligence to do something for the community. HD DVD
needed to be cracked to show that it is possible and maybe to try
and destroy them and I want that so if you want to call me a
criminal go ahead. I am not interested in stealing their ideas or w/
e. I just want to see HD DVD go down and this is the way to do
that. This is the only way we can have power over big corporations.
I am sick and tired of seeing other people get things they don't
deserve! **** HD DVD!
The piracy groups have already been releasing HD movies a long time, posting the code on Digg does nothing to help them, they would have already had it anyways.
In a democracy the people can vote themselves any right they want. You want to banish all lefthanders; in your democracy you can vote yourself that right by a simple majority.
In a republic the people are constrained by laws laid down in a framework (which we call The Constitution) and must honor basic rights, even those of the minorities. One of these long-held rights is the right to profit from one's own work and to protect that work from those who would seek to copy it and profit from it themselves.
If you need to have a copy of your movie to "protect it from your kids", here's an outlandish thought, buy it!
I do not buy the argument that you want to copy a movie for your own "archive". Those types of arguments are at the very least disingenuous, and are more probably a bold-faced lie.
However, the consumer ALSO has the right to protest what they perceive to be unfair or unrealistic limitations in an effort to convince the producer that said limits and restrictions are unreasonable.
That is what the Digg users did--they protested the MPAA's Mafia-like tactics and unrealistic terms, and by doing so focused a lot of attention on the problem of DRM.
As a consumer I don't like DRM or anything that stops my right to use the movie or music that I've purchased. However, as a consumer I must respect the rights of the content owner and use it as agreed upon which means I don't share it illegally.
Now as far as the whole Entitlement Generation crap goes. It started with the baby boomers. My father and mother are baby boomers and they had no problem copying audio tapes or VHS movies back in the day or sharing music or movies with people. The only difference between now and then is it's a whole lot easier and cheaper to do today than it was back then. We are not products of our own generation, but products of the previous generation.
In order to play a legally-purchased-brand-new-in-the-box DVD on my Linux desktop at home, I have to download software to decrypt the DVD, download the decryption key (what the Digg users were posting), and finally download a utility to set the region for the DVD drive (google "DVD region code" if you don't know what I'm talking about). Tell me which part of this is immoral or even a violation of the MPAA's licensing?
I have NEVER used a peer to peer network to acquire or post media in violation of the author's copyrights -- I respect their intellectual property, and I don't believe it is morally acceptable to deprive someone of their livelihood simply because I am cheap. I just want to be able to play a freaking DVD on the OS that I have chosen to run on my desktop. Is that REALLY so unreasonable? Does that make me a criminal?
Since I've never lived anywhere, but the USA I can't say that about anywhere else.
Talk about a break-through -- fellow Internet users, unite!
The rise of Netflix and DVD copying software has allowed me to bypass directly paying the MPAA and movie studios for the content which they choose to market at an unreasonable cost.
This is just like watching free broadcast TV and having the show itself be paid for by the commercials and not me.
Netflix + DVD Copy Software = Free Market.
http://digg.com/world_news/Can_the_Digg_mob_stop_the_War_in_Iraq
You that do this,are only adding "fuel to the fire" so too speak.You are the reason DRM was created!
Copy protection is nothing new. I really think this has all started simply because digital media can be duplicated so exactly that it is very hard to tell it from the master. I can not offer a solution to a very complex problem. But I do know that posting hacks for getting around copy protection will only create more protectionist feelings in the media.
Read and Understand before you speak. I have the right, provided by law to do this.
On a side note you don't own the content on a DVD. You only own the DVD. When buying a DVD you only buy the right to view the content in the manor which the content owner agrees to.
As the MPAA stands today if you buy a DVD for private home viewing then you can't copy it to a computer or to an iPod etc. You only have the right to use it in a DVD player for private viewing in your home.
Now with that said. If you copy every DVD you own to your media server for private home viewing then I seriously doubt the MPAA is going to come knocking at your door. Hell, I doubt that they would come knocking if you copied every DVD you rented to your media server. However, you start distributing those movies then I would expect that knock.
Because it was inhuman treatment of people. Slavery still exist today though in some parts of the world.
"Why was Prohibition overturned?"
Because people continued to drink and because of the increasing amount of deadly alcohol. Remember, though, that many people still went to jail for breaking the law.
"Why was there a Boston Tea Party?"
Unfair taxation without proper representation.
"It was not popular! It was wrong! It could not be controlled! Why are all laws changed? If nobody questions a law then we are not citizens, we are servants/subjects."
I agree 100% that people should question every law passed. More over they need to be very vocal about laws that are either to heavily one sided or just completely unfair. However breaking the law is still breaking the law.
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... To your hearts content.If we can't stand now with something so simple, when can we stand? I suggest you go to every possible place you can comment or blog and post the code. Do it as soon as possible, as often as possible!
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- by Tokimemofan May 8, 2007 12:10 AM PDT
- The way I understand DMCA and fair use You can back up dvds or any other media but the DMCA creates a legal Catch 22. To summarise it up, you have to break the law, specificaly Anti-Circumvention clause of the DMCA. This is a classic example of two laws conflicting with each other.
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- by Tokimemofan May 8, 2007 12:31 AM PDT
- The way I understand DMCA and fair use You can back up dvds or any other media but the DMCA creates a legal Catch 22. To summarise it up, you have to break the law, specificaly Anti-Circumvention clause of the DMCA. This is a classic example of two laws conflicting with each other.
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(73 Comments)The current Deception, Rootkit, Mayhem [DRM] crap combined with outdated busness practices
The current Deception, Rootkit, Mayhem [DRM] crap combined with outdated busness practices are at fault. Also, you cannot call every illegal copy a lost sale. If someone in Japan downloads a movie that will never be released there then the copyright holder never had the sale to begin with. Piracy can be beneficial under some circumstances too, for those that want solid proof look up "anime."