Comments on: Democrats' plan: Net neutrality, copyright rewrite

Congress this year is likely to take up performance rights legislation and Net neutrality, a congressional staffer said Wednesday.

[Seanathome]

Allow us to copy our DVDs for storage on our computers. I understand that file-sharing will always remain "illegal"... I just want a legal way to copy my DVDs to my computer. :)

[lkrupp]

I received a Blu-ray copy of Hellboy II for Christmas. It also contained a digital copy of the movie that could be loaded onto my computer. In my case, as a Mac user, I had to simply enter an authorization code into iTunes. The digital copy was then copied to my computer and automatically synced over to my Apple TV set-top box. Playback is more than acceptable on my 46" HD TV; not Bluray quality but acceptable.

I think this could be the solution or balance to the issue of backing up movies for playback on personal computers.

[sanenazok]

@lkrupp: how did you get an Apple to read a BluRay disk?

[Sporlo]

ikrupp: lucky you. My DVD of the Dark Knight says it won't work with Apple stuff/iTunes. But either way I lent it to a friend so they could check it out, and it would cost them $2 to put a digital copy on their computer...

[Penguinisto]

BluRay on an Apple is easy to obtain, and can be summed up in one acronym: USB.

[Sporlo]

"Friedman said he expected the music industry would support Net neutrality legislation 'as long as it doesn't mean piracy isn't equal to legal commerce.'"

Wouldn't that be the same thing as

"the music industry would support Net neutrality legislation 'only if it says piracy is equal to legal commerce.'"

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[unknown unknown]

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Why does anyone care what the music or movies industries wants, they've been nothing but laggards, obstructionists, and at times extortionists. It's time they sink or swim and stop trying to put the dampers on innovation that does not fall in to lock step with their out dated though processes. Too long they've tried to preserve a business model that is several years over due for the scrape heap.

Do we really want to listen to an industry that has at various times tried to legislate or litigate out of existence technology that they don't like. Piano rolls, DAT tapes, VCRs, DVRs, and MP3 players for example. These industries are acutely myopic.

It's just too bad congress is corrupt as hell, which isn't surprising considering they get to write their own ethics rules. It's like putting a kid in charge of a candy shop. How many laws regarding copyright have been passed because the entertainment industries grease the palms of sympathetic congress critters.

Where the DVR is splitting hairs. This is kind stuff that has turned copyright law into a bad joke.
It is just stupid.
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[unknown unknown]

[rant]
Why does anyone care what the music or movies industries wants, they've been nothing but laggards, obstructionists, and at times extortionists. It's time they sink or swim and stop trying to put the dampers on innovation that does not fall in to lock step with their out dated though processes. Too long they've tried to preserve a business model that is several years over due for the scrape heap.

Do we really want to listen to an industry that has at various times tried to legislate or litigate out of existence technology that they don't like. Piano rolls, DAT tapes, VCRs, DVRs, and MP3 players for example. These industries are acutely myopic.

It's just too bad congress is corrupt as hell, which isn't surprising considering they get to write their own ethics rules. It's like putting a kid in charge of a candy shop. How many laws regarding copyright have been passed because the entertainment industries grease the palms of sympathetic congress critters.

Where the DVR is splitting hairs. This is kind stuff that has turned copyright law into a bad joke.
It is just stupid.
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[unknown unknown]

sorry about the double post.

[paul_kapustka]

Congress didn't forget about Net Neutrality, they were just busy with the election. Read what opponents, proponents and regulators think will happen with Net Neutrality in our report, now available for free download: http://www.sidecutreports.com/2009/01/14/sidecut-net-neutrality-report-now-free/

[TogetherinParis]

We need to criminalize outright theft of intellectual property. If some Hollywood big shot knowingly steals stories, she or he should serve jail time for it. We should make this retroactive, too, but allow the culprits to fess up.

[dinnertime]

please see http://www.piausa.org/ for a different/opposing view on patent reform

[bvra]

Seems analogous to a copy machine. You don't ban the copy machine simply because people can use it to infringe material protected by a copyright. Copyright holders must find people that directly infringe and if the infringement is worth worrying about, a phone call and negotiations typically end the infringement and filing an expensive lawsuit is unnecessary. The "content/entertainment" should be prevented from blocking this technology.