xrobertcmx
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Re: Not if the RIAA and MPAA can prevent it
said by BrianDamage  :
You have to be pushy and aggressive.
I have the office numbers for both his local and DC office:) I don't mess around, that issue I mentioned put me over the edge. |
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You have to write many times over before your rep will ever actually see your letter with his/her own eyes.
They have legions of assistants to wade through all of the letters.
You have to be pushy and aggressive.
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xrobertcmx
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I have written congress, the problem is everytime I write I get back a standard response. It doesn't help. I wrote Warner once and got back a letter about how proud he was to do the exact oposite. I now have three copies of a letter I wrote him about, I was saying the letter was moronic. |
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said by NOVA_Guy :
I wasn't necessarily referring to DivX being dead, but what the government did with it. If I recall correctly, didn't they make hacking DivX copy protection-- or even providing information/instructions or software to do it-- a crime? That's what I'm opposed to more than anything else. I see no reason why the government or any media company should feel they have the right to control the storage or playback method of content that I have legally purchased from them.
Restrictions are not specific to DivX. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takes away pretty much all fair use rights granted under Copyright law. Couples that with the Sonny Bono copyright extension act that extends copyright virtually forever and we have rather dire situation,
If you are concerned about Government intrusion write your Rep and Senators. The media cartel wrote and lobbied for the DMCA because they are scared to death of digital technology and managed to buy enough legislators to get it through Congress.
If you want to be even more outraged at what Congress and the Industry are doing to fair use take a look at the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse.
»www.chillingeffects.org/ |
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said by xrobertcmx :
Call me out of touch, but what happened with DivX? Is this the DivX DVD disc that floped? or the Codec?
I wasn't necessarily referring to DivX being dead, but what the government did with it. If I recall correctly, didn't they make hacking DivX copy protection-- or even providing information/instructions or software to do it-- a crime? That's what I'm opposed to more than anything else. I see no reason why the government or any media company should feel they have the right to control the storage or playback method of content that I have legally purchased from them. If I buy a CD, I've bought a license to listen to the music on it, and should be able to listen to said music on my computer, my car stereo, my MP3 player, my home stereo, etc., etc. The same with video-- if I buy a movie, it shouldn't matter whether I watch it on VHS, DVD, or rip it and convert it to a format that I can watch on my PocketPC. But that just isn't the case with DivX... 
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xrobertcmx
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Thanks, I barely remember those disc's on the shelf, but I am familiar with DivX as the mp4 codec. Seems like every video downloaded is encoded in it. |
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mdmathis6
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Midlothian, VA | reply to xrobertcmx
It was the disc....divx is another name for the mp4 codec, so when you see downloads for a divx player, it refers to a media player that will play videos encoded in mp4. |
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xrobertcmx
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said by NOVA_Guy :
Think it can't be made so? Just look at the crap that was pulled with DivX.
Call me out of touch, but what happened with DivX? Is this the DivX DVD disc that floped? or the Codec? |
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NOVA_Guy
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said by tschmidt :
We have two competing forces.
The technology and communication industry see widespread deployment of broadband as the driver of new business opportunity....
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The 5 mega media corporations represented the RIAA and MPAA that are deathly afraid of losing control of the distribution channel....
You may have framed the competing sides to this debate properly, but you have forgotten the relative sizes of the two industries.
The revenue of all technology companies combined far outweighs the combined revenue of all RIAA member companies. Let's face it: if the technology sector formed an alliance similar to the RIAA and decided that DRM was a bad thing, Rosen and her thugs would be handily defeated.
I believe that the rumblings we heard last year from the technology industry that were somewhat directed at the music industry is just a first. I think that when the technology industry-- and consumers-- get a full picture of what the MPAA and RIAA want, there will be a massive cry about fair use rights. I just hope this full picture doesn't come into focus too late for most stakeholders involved.
The RIAA and MPAA aren't necessarily opposed to everyone having a broadband connection; they are just opposed to the free movement of their "property" without their explicit "permission" at any time. If both organizations had their way, this would likely include the total control of content delivered over radio, television, pay-per-view, movie rentals, and anything else media-related. I can easily see them pushing for a world in which content is encrypted and digitally delivered to a device in your home, which checks to ensure that you are authorized to view the delivered content prior to showing it.
The MPAA would finally be able to prevent people from copying movies when they rent them. The RIAA would possibly be able to prevent people from copying songs off the radio. And traditional non-copy-protected CDs, of course, would not be playable on the new "trusted" DRM-compliant systems. Hacking any of these new systems, or supplying help, technical information, etc. about these systems would be deemed a crime. Think it can't be made so? Just look at the crap that was pulled with DivX.
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