is it okay to save DVDs rented from Netflix and watch them on planes later?
Jun 2, 2007, 7:11 pm
#91
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It's certainly a flippant argument to make, but I've heard a few people make the argument recently that CSS doesn't constitute an "effective" access control mechanism because a 16-year old kid from Norway was able to figure out how to circumvent it. 
I can't imagine any judge buying it (aside from a judge with a slightly twisted sense of humor who had it in for the entertainment industry). That said, I do think that the use of CSS-stripping software for the purpose of interoperability (ie playing a DVD in Linux circa 2000-2001) should be explicitly permissible, subject to fair use doctrine.
I can't imagine any judge buying it (aside from a judge with a slightly twisted sense of humor who had it in for the entertainment industry). That said, I do think that the use of CSS-stripping software for the purpose of interoperability (ie playing a DVD in Linux circa 2000-2001) should be explicitly permissible, subject to fair use doctrine.
Jun 3, 2007, 6:43 am
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Such products have been sold since the first commercially available tape deck and VCR rolled off the conveyorbelt.
Before computers, CD-R and DVD+/-R, bootlegging still existed but not at such a scale as it does now. "Back then" it was hard work and time consuming. These days it's a couple of mouse clicks and a coffee break. There is no such thing as "3rd generation copy" and crappy images anymore. Today the image/sound quality will be the same as the original.
I trust PTravel to know the law on Intellectual property but I can say that as someone who has produced intellectual property on CD and doing it now via camera, I am royally piffed off at those who have been bootlegging CDs with songs I wrote the words for or my website designs or my photography. And if they also make money on it - it's even worse.
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Before computers, CD-R and DVD+/-R, bootlegging still existed but not at such a scale as it does now. "Back then" it was hard work and time consuming. These days it's a couple of mouse clicks and a coffee break. There is no such thing as "3rd generation copy" and crappy images anymore. Today the image/sound quality will be the same as the original.
I trust PTravel to know the law on Intellectual property but I can say that as someone who has produced intellectual property on CD and doing it now via camera, I am royally piffed off at those who have been bootlegging CDs with songs I wrote the words for or my website designs or my photography. And if they also make money on it - it's even worse.
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Jun 3, 2007, 8:04 am
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The whole issue is a lot simpler if you do what I do....just read a book on the plane, and leave the movie viewing for home.
And by a book I mean a real book, not a photocopy of a book.
And by a book I mean a real book, not a photocopy of a book.