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Topic: MPAA releases new anti-piracy tool
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Thomas King
Expert Film Handler
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Posts: 119
From: Sheffield, Yorkshire, England
Registered: Oct 2004
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posted 01-28-2005 08:43 PM
It doesn't work on Linux, either. Or Epod, Palm, (god help us) OS2/Warp, or most graphical calculators. The MPAA are a bunch of hypocrites. (When unpacking my iPod, I remember smiling wryly at the little sticker on the front that said "Please don't pirate music").
I admire their tactics, but I think they're onto a losing battle here. People will go to great lentghs to protect their ill-gotten gains. Plus, they're relying on parents understanding their kid's computers. Still, I wish them luck; it'll mean the internet is faster for *my* nefarious p2p activities.
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Thomas Procyk
Phenomenal Film Handler
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Posts: 1842
From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 02-01-2005 10:44 AM
Yeah. Copyright law works like the drug dealer's code in that respect.
The show airs and you love it, but you never tape any episodes. Then the show goes off the air. But your friend taped every episode and is willing to give them to you but he can't.
So you're "addicted" to this show and you really want to see it! Well, haha! You must go to the DEALER and PAY them to get your fix by buying them on DVD. Now, if they're not available on DVD and they don't air anymore, effectively the copyright owner has made his own work illegal.
And what happens when anything is made illegal? You have to find ways on the underground market to get it. That's how many of us acquire all these "cool" and "rare" things we have now which, under the law, we shouldn't be legally allowed to own. Disney's "Song of the South" comes to mind.
Or what about where the original work has been altered and unavailable and now we want to view the original for "historical reasons." (not that anyone would want to do that for Star Wars, but whatever) The copyright owner has made the original versions illegal to acquire beyond a certain point. (the release of the SE) So now we must break the law if we want to view the original work. Yay, capitalism.
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