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EFF on the RealDVD decisionEFF on the RealDVD decisionPosted Aug 12, 2009 17:07 UTC (Wed) by AndreE (subscriber, #60148)In reply to: EFF on the RealDVD decision by etrusco Parent article: EFF on the RealDVD decision
No point.
It will be blamed on piracy
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EFF on the RealDVD decision Posted Aug 12, 2009 17:43 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]
This is pretty true. Boycotting them is always worthwhile, but it's not enough to force a change.
A boycott has to be accompanied by an awareness campaign such as petition people can sign which says "I'm cutting my music and video purchases because I'm sick of excessive power and restrictions being used by the music and video industries". Or such.
EFF on the RealDVD decision Posted Aug 12, 2009 18:16 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
How about you write to your congressman and complain about them handing over this excessive power to the music and video industries?
They are only excersizing rights granted to them and protected by the US Federal government. If it wasn't for the DMCA it would be a cottage indutstry providing work arounds and cracks for digital media.
It's that way for analog devices! It's legal to sell analog descramblers and whatnot, and even use them.. as long as your not violating copyrights. Once you use them to steal cable, or whatever, that was when they became illegal.
The difference being that with analog data it's illegal to violate copyright were with the DMCA and digital media it's illegal to have the _capabilities_ to violate copyrights (aka digitally 'protected' media)
EFF on the RealDVD decision Posted Aug 13, 2009 5:51 UTC (Thu) by AndreE (subscriber, #60148) [Link]
Spare a thought for those living in backwards countries like Australia where we can only copy the information tech policies of other countries, rather than elect savvy people to define our own direction
EFF on the RealDVD decision Posted Aug 13, 2009 7:38 UTC (Thu) by Los__D (subscriber, #15263) [Link]
This seems no different to me, than how the DMCA and InfoSoc arrived to pest our lifes; they were both results of the WIPO Copyright Treaty, just as the Copyright Amendment Bill came from the US-Australian free trade agreement (free my a**).
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