Posted on 05/09/2008 12:06:07 PM PDT by JerseyHighlander
Selling the original DVD is no different from selling your car or your old sofa. You bought it, so you have the right to resell it. Selling the copy is not a right. My suggestion was that giving away a copy is also not your right, because it deprives the artist of royalties from a possible legitimate sale.
Their next claim allowed to become law of the land will be you aren’t buying the DVD but rather the right to watch it nonsense.
This will never happen, or it it did, it would be shot down by the courts. They might as well argue that you don't really own the car that Ford sells you, but only the right to drive and ride in it.
Of course not. It wouldn't be a personal back up copy at that point, you would be distributing copies. That's completely unprotected.
Better start reading software user agreements closer then.
Usually I write my representatives. I don't care who such powers are applied to, since once a government gets a power it's going to use it on everyone eventually.
Open Secrets is a wonderful place.
Can you answer the qestions I posed to dcwusmc in post 72?
I came into a realization about this stuff in the mid 80s because of the drug war. And, no, people who support our loss of rights aren’t necessarily evil. Often they think they’re doing what is needed to protect America, they just forget that an America without rights isn’t worth protecting in the first place.
I doubt it these days. The MPAA likes to play both sides of the issue, alternately stating it's licensed material or a purchased product depending on which rights the consumer is trying to exercise. They want to avoid consumer protection laws that come with a purchased product and various rights of the people that apply to copyright.
I just sent mine a pointed message. He’s usually pretty good, but on this one I’m extremely disappointed in him.
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