servies;238639 Wrote: > Strictly speaking a lot of the people on this forum don't live in the > USA so your laws don't apply to us. So I don't care about the DMCA > As a Dutchy I even have a right to create a copy so CD extraction is > legal, DVD-A extraction is legal, SACD extraction is legal. The only > problem is that's it's still technically impossible to extract a > SACD...
Hmm...if you did bother to read this thread you'd see I'm Canadian. Now I know we're seen internationally as the USA's retarded little brother but we are still a separate country and we do have separate laws. The DMCA doesn't apply here but we may very shortly have something even more draconian. We already pay extra for blank media (originally tapes, now blank CDs and DVDs) due to the possibility that we *may* record copyrighted material onto it. This automatically assumes we're all guilty. Yet recording copyrighted material is still illegal. So we're paying for something we're not allowed to do in the first place. Go figure that one out. Now they want to extend this to flash drives and hard drives, but the capacities of these are so much greater that the extra cost would be tremendous. Imagine the royalties for the amount of material that could fit on a 500 GB or 1 TB drive... The RIAA and MPAA exert influence worldwide and they are in the process of getting laws changed here and in the EU. It seems that both Canadian and EU politicians are as easily bought as American politicians - no surprise there. So what goes in the USA goes worldwide, don't be so naive to think otherwise. The US dictates how the world runs, like it or not. -- Mark Lanctot 'Sean Adams' Response-O-Matic checklist, patent pending!' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=200910&postcount=2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39694 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
