Re: Oz-land you guys just dropped over the edge

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.

--
Tony Garcia
Web Right! Development
Riverside, CA
www.WebRightDevelopment.com

"Tony" <tony23.no@dslextreme.com.spam> wrote in
news:11dg5dn33ibop98@corp.supernews.com:

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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.


scary times, Tony.

We live in times where big corporations seemingly influence/buy new laws.

Of course, the problem for the state is that many of these measures are
largely unenforceable.

I want to see democracy restored (I am in the UK).