Proposed Amendment Would Ban All DVD Copying
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| A proposed amendment to the current copy protection license governing
| DVDs would completely ban all DVD backups, and prevent DVD playback
| without the DVD disk being present inside the drive.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2148802,00.asp
Boosting profits by setting expiry date on content (see bottom).
[Canadian] Industry Committee Demands a Canadian DMCA
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| While it may not accept all the recommendations, this report
| dramatically escalates the pressure for one-sided copyright reforms
| that mirror DMCA-style laws.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2049/125/
Related:
Feeding Frenzy: Digital Rights Management is really just an ecosystem for
selling our own stuff to us again and again.
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| And into this confluence of greed and shared interest strides
| Microsoft and Bill Gates promising a technical solution that
| gives every potential partner exactly what they want. Content
| owners get a chance to sell everything over again and this time
| they'll be supposedly protected from piracy. Everyone will have
| to buy a new TV with an HDMI connector as well as all new video
| and stereo components of every type, just so long as they, too,
| use strictly HDMI connections. Problems of deliberate signal
| degradation and driver horrors will make all video cards and
| most processors obsolete, so we'll have to buy all new PCs. Mr.
| Gutmann characterizes this lack of backward compatibility or any
| shred of technical elegance as suicidal on Microsoft's part when,
| in fact, it is Microsoft's best imitation of brilliance. Intel and
| AMD love it. ATI and nVidia love it. Thomson and Philips and Sony
| and Matsushita and Samsung and LG love it. Every movie studio, TV
| network, and record company loves it. The only people who don't
| love it are consumers, and neither industry nor government really
| cared much about them, ever.
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http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2006/pulpit_20061229_001403.html
Congress Critters Threaten To Pass Laws Forcing Universities To Obey RIAA
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| It appears that the money the RIAA is spending on campaign donations
| is well spent, however. With the universities not falling into line
| as expected, Congress held hearings where various politicians
| blasted universities for not taking a more proactive stance and
| threatening to withhold federal money from universities that
| don't play by the RIAA's rules.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070606/001544.shtml
RIAA and MPAA Fund Anti-Piracy Politicians
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| Over the last month or two, we have seen congressional investigations
| started and bills proposed to deal with file sharing. Not
| surprisingly, these politicians receive a fair amount of money
| from the RIAA and MPAA. Doesn't it make you wonder -- Are these
| politicians for hire?
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http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-and-mpaa-fund-anti-piracy-politicians/
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