| Soon:---->recording TV shows will be illegal! [message #208262] |
Mo, 23 Januar 2006 08:46 |
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/
http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/12983
Draft legislation making the rounds in the U.S. Senate gives us a
preview of the MPAA and RIAA's next target: your television and radio.
(Please write your Senator about this!)
You say you want the power to time-shift and space-shift TV and radio?
You say you want tomorrow's innovators to invent new TV and radio
gizmos you haven't thought of yet, the same way the pioneers behind
the VCR, TiVo, and the iPod did?
Well, that's not what the entertainment industry has in mind.
According to them, here's all tomorrow's innovators should be allowed
to offer you:
"customary historic use of broadcast content by consumers to the
extent such use is consistent with applicable law."
Had that been the law in 1970, there would never have been a VCR. Had
it been the law in 1990, no TiVo. In 2000, no iPod.
Fair use has always been a forward-looking doctrine. It was meant to
leave room for new uses, not merely "customary historic uses." Sony
was entitled to build the VCR first, and resolve the fair use
questions in court later. This arrangement has worked well for all
involved -- consumers, media moguls, and high technology companies.
Now the RIAA and MPAA want to betray that legacy by passing laws that
will regulate new technologies in advance and freeze fair use forever.
If it wasn't a "customary historic use," federal regulators will be
empowered to ban the feature, prohibiting innovators from offering it.
If the feature is banned, courts will never have an opportunity to
pass on whether the activity is a fair use.
Voila, fair use is frozen in time. We'll continue to have devices that
ape the VCRs and cassette decks of the past, but new gizmos will have
to be submitted to the FCC for approval, where MPAA and RIAA lobbyists
can kill it in the crib.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/
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| Re: Soon:---->recording TV shows will be illegal! [message #208265 ] |
Mo, 23 Januar 2006 12:40 |
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<bill_g [at] microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:k829t1hhl37ln603tctssssvganama90f7 [at] 4ax.com
> http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/
> http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/12983
>
> Draft legislation making the rounds in the U.S. Senate
> gives us a preview of the MPAA and RIAA's next target:
> your television and radio. (Please write your Senator
> about this!)
I haven't got one, I live in the UK.
Ivor
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| Re: Soon:---->recording TV shows will be illegal! [message #208272 ] |
Di, 24 Januar 2006 05:48 |
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Uh-huh. Yeah. Right. Whatever.
bill_g [at] microsoft.com wrote:
>
>
> http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/
> http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/12983
>
> Draft legislation making the rounds in the U.S. Senate gives us a
> preview of the MPAA and RIAA's next target: your television and radio.
> (Please write your Senator about this!)
>
> You say you want the power to time-shift and space-shift TV and radio?
> You say you want tomorrow's innovators to invent new TV and radio
> gizmos you haven't thought of yet, the same way the pioneers behind
> the VCR, TiVo, and the iPod did?
>
> Well, that's not what the entertainment industry has in mind.
> According to them, here's all tomorrow's innovators should be allowed
> to offer you:
>
> "customary historic use of broadcast content by consumers to the
> extent such use is consistent with applicable law."
>
> Had that been the law in 1970, there would never have been a VCR. Had
> it been the law in 1990, no TiVo. In 2000, no iPod.
>
> Fair use has always been a forward-looking doctrine. It was meant to
> leave room for new uses, not merely "customary historic uses." Sony
> was entitled to build the VCR first, and resolve the fair use
> questions in court later. This arrangement has worked well for all
> involved -- consumers, media moguls, and high technology companies.
>
> Now the RIAA and MPAA want to betray that legacy by passing laws that
> will regulate new technologies in advance and freeze fair use forever.
> If it wasn't a "customary historic use," federal regulators will be
> empowered to ban the feature, prohibiting innovators from offering it.
> If the feature is banned, courts will never have an opportunity to
> pass on whether the activity is a fair use.
>
> Voila, fair use is frozen in time. We'll continue to have devices that
> ape the VCRs and cassette decks of the past, but new gizmos will have
> to be submitted to the FCC for approval, where MPAA and RIAA lobbyists
> can kill it in the crib.
>
> http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/
>
>
--
You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look
that says, 'Wow, you're right! I never would've thought of that!'
- Dave Barry
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| Re: Soon:---->recording TV shows will be illegal! [message #208277 ] |
Di, 24 Januar 2006 16:18 |
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On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:48:07 -0600, Rich Piehl
<rpiehl5REMOVETHIS [at] FORNOSPAMcharter.net> wrote:
>Uh-huh. Yeah. Right. Whatever.
Wake up and smell the cofffee. If TPTB had their way that
TV you just bought would not be able to be hooked up to
a VCR/DVR/or other recording device.
Try reading up on the subject.
TPTB in Hollywood when HDTV first came on the scene
had a proposal that every TV sold not have a hookup for
a VCR/DVR/or other device.
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| Re: Soon:---->recording TV shows will be illegal! [message #208278 ] |
Di, 24 Januar 2006 17:27 |
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"Barrnabas Collins" <BarnabasCollinsonSFNOSPAM [at] gmail.com>
wrote in message
news:t0hct1l0o01atbullseetsviq66iaje8ep [at] 4ax.com
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:48:07 -0600, Rich Piehl
> <rpiehl5REMOVETHIS [at] FORNOSPAMcharter.net> wrote:
>
> > Uh-huh. Yeah. Right. Whatever.
> Wake up and smell the cofffee. If TPTB had their way that
> TV you just bought would not be able to be hooked up to
> a VCR/DVR/or other recording device.
>
> Try reading up on the subject.
>
> TPTB in Hollywood when HDTV first came on the scene
> had a proposal that every TV sold not have a hookup for
> a VCR/DVR/or other device.
My TV hasn't. I plug the aerial (antenna for you US types..!) into the VCR
and from there it goes to the TV.
Ivor
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