robert blake wrote:
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> The multi-national manufacturing video recorders and photocopiers,
> Toyko- based Phony, was also found guilty. The judge said it could
> have stopped the copyright infringement but did nothing about it.
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> The case against Phony and the other manufacturers was brought by
> several members of the public..
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> A spokesman for the general public welcomed the ruling, saying it
> confirmed that the manufacture of equipment for use primarily in the
> copying of music, video and books/magazines, was illegal.
Don't laugh - the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) makes equipment
able to defeat copyright protection such as Macrovision illegal. Not the USE
of it, but the manufacture and/or posession of it.
Of course, Time-Base Correctors, which are used, and necessary, in broadcast
video production, easily defeat copy protection.
Personal responsibility for your own actions is a thing of the past.
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Tony Garcia
Web Right! Development
Riverside, CA
www.WebRightDevelopment.com