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Author Topic: Court orders digital VCR maker to spy on customers Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 05-14-2002 06:50 AM                        Click here for story...  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 05-14-2002 01:03 PM                        The entertainment industry is in a word, stupid. They always have been. Anyone care to argue with that? This digital recorder does the same thing as a VCR. With videotape people can share files such as pay-per-view events with non-subscribers. With the VCR people can skip commercials. Everyone wants to control the world.  |  IP: Logged Bill Hallsworth Film Handler Posts: 34 From: Loganville, GA, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 05-14-2002 01:31 PM                     Don't worry, I'm sure the CA legislature will find that these machines cause cancer or something and ban them. Anyone with a VCR or a DVD burner can do the same thing...why bother trying to limit another recording medium? And why do it in such a way that it will piss off a lot of people?  |  IP: Logged Jim Ziegler Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 753 From: West Hollywood, CA Registered: Jul 99 posted 05-14-2002 02:55 PM                     This order is clearly unconstitutional. The government could not, without a warrent, collect such information. Nor can the government attempt to skirt the Constitution by requiring a civilian to collect such information. This order will be struck down in Federal court.  |  IP: Logged Dennis Atkinson Expert Film Handler Posts: 129 From: Birch Run Michigan Registered: Feb 2000 posted 05-14-2002 04:43 PM                        These are some of the same studios that paid to have the copyright laws extended / changed so Mickey Mouse would not become public domain so soon. We'll see, it's the best government money can buy  |  IP: Logged James R. Hammonds, Jr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 931 From: Houston, TX, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 05-14-2002 07:38 PM                     <<Everyone wants to control the world.>> Joe, I think you mean "Everybody wants to rule the world."  |  IP: Logged Michael Gonzalez Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 790 From: Grand Island , NE USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 05-14-2002 10:47 PM                     Well legally it's not quite unconstitutional because it will not be the government who is collecting and using the information instead it will be a third party. So until there was a case where the information was used to prosecute someone for piracy there would be no legal remedy short of violating a provision in a privicy law that I am unaware of.  |  IP: Logged

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