NOVA_Guy
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| reply to xrobertcmx
Re: Not if the RIAA and MPAA can prevent it
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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tschmidt
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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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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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BrianDamage
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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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Sterling, VA
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| 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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