Proposed amendmant to ban all legal DVD copies.
In response to a recent lawsuit, here reported, an amendment to the current copy protection license has been proposed by the DVD Copy Control Associations. It would ban any form of copying, including fair use back-ups of original discs, and would only allow playback of content from the original source.
The lawsuit was related to Kaleidescape, a DVD home server company, that successfully thwarted the DVD Copy Control Associations efforts to stop their form of distribution. The new amendment was basically designed to put Kaleidescape out of business and could easily run afoul of federal and state laws prohibiting anticompetitive alliances.
The unfortunate fact is that virtually none of Kaleidescape's customers were violating the spirit of the rules as they purchased all of their DVDs before they were transferred to the server and the server was very secure, operating solely for the owner's benefit.
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By
agomes,
Thursday 21 June 2007 14:54
No surprise, and we can't argue against their ability to look for that...the only solution being a ban on purchase of their DVDs, as we can survive without buying DVDs buth they will not survive without sales!!!
By
Afterburner (guest),
Thursday 21 June 2007 15:41
I think DVD movies are cheap enough now, we should not need to copy them anymore. Anyone who wants to copy DVD's nowadays is probably a pirate!
By
Rich86 (guest),
Thursday 21 June 2007 18:57
As I understand this issue, it has nothing to do with anyone pirating dvd movies. It is a logical extension of having digital entertainment equipment and media in your home, networked together, with access to your movie collection. This sounds like nothing more than sour grapes from an organization that lost a lawsuit and now wants to extract revenge on the winning company who developed a perfectly legitimate product that was being used as intended. How about if someone outlaws the DVD Copy Control Organization as being petty, vindictive, useless and well beyond it's intended life span.
By
Mike (guest),
Friday 22 June 2007 16:14
Afterburner.... that is the most ignorant sh!t I have ever read. Some people believe it or not will take a legitimate DVD and add it to their computer to be accessed throughout the house through their network. Or add it to their mobile phone or PDA for watching while traveling. There are many legitimate uses for backing up your DVD\'s. And again, they can make all the laws they want, it does not stop piracy.
By
jimjam (guest),
Monday 25 June 2007 11:03
Hand your entire DVD movie collection to a 7 year old and that mistake will get far more expensive than letting them trash burned copies. Those fragile discs should have been locked in caddies.
Pirate? Argh, Matey. That I be, says I.
Watch soon you won't be able to play burnt movies be it homemade or not on standalone dvd players.
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