Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: MineralMan
What we are really talking about is a very small technical distinction that does not amount to a hill of beans. It is current law that I can buy a DVD and alter it for my own purposes. I can (or should be able to) buy a DVD and take it to someone who will alter if for me. Therefore, as a practical matter, there is no real distinction from allowing companies to do this service before I buy it, if the buyer wants to buy the DVD with the service already added to it.

All the scare tactics about someone putting something in a Bambi movie is ridiculous. However, if someone wants to add something to a Bambi movie and the buyer wants it put in, I don't see a problem with that.

At a very minimum, the law should allow a business to sanitize a DVD AFTER it has been purchased by a buyer, if the buyer pays the business for the service. I have not read one argument that has any merit for why that should not be allowed.
274 posted on 07/10/2006 10:42:06 AM PDT by Hendrix
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 266 | View Replies ]


To: Hendrix

But that was not the case before this court, was it?


277 posted on 07/10/2006 10:43:43 AM PDT by MineralMan (non-evangelical atheist)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 274 | View Replies ]

To: Hendrix
However, if someone wants to add something to a Bambi movie and the buyer wants it put in, I don't see a problem with that.

Really? This is part of the heart of copyright law. If you don't see a problem with this, I can see why you wouldn't have problems with outside sources "sanitizing" movies and distributing them.
291 posted on 07/10/2006 11:06:13 AM PDT by Stone Mountain
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 274 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson