Brian Butterworth wrote:
It's only on the EPG anyway, even Windows Media Centre will bypass it,
as it uses the DigiGuide one. Or record the whole audio-video stream
and use an edit package. Or pause/record the old fashioned way.
To expand my argument (as you have seen my previous post).
It is a matter of principle not expediency.
They are constructing the Infrastructure of Control, and the BBC are
party to this. Such control which is never in the public interest.
If, as Mo pointed out, the guidelines say the 'copy never flag' should
never be used. Then why does the copy never flag exist ?
In fact why is the whole infrastructure, been made more complex, brittle
and expensive ?
We need to reject DRM in principle. The fact that it is ineffective in
practice, is not a reason to tolerate this.
At the risk of infringing the Manic Street Preachers copyright:
"If you tolerate this, then your children will be next ..."
Only they won't wait for your children ...
Of course my use of the Manic Street Preachers lyrics is fair use, but
the use of even a single frame of a protected HD content, fair use (or
fair dealing) is prohibited by technology, not the law (or and the law
as it is protected by technical measures).
Pastor Martin Niemöller is less likely to issue an extra judicial take
down notice, especially if I change the text: "first they came for the
pirates..."
The use of a single frame of protected HD doesn't breach the law, but
still subject to technological measures and extra judicial enforcement.
The circumvention of technological measures, to enjoy to copyright
exceptions under the law, is in breach of the EU Copyright Directive.
The reality is everyone breaches copyright, all the time, and copyright
is subject to fair use (fair dealing) ...
You make think this is exaggerated, but once you concede the principle,
and create the infrastructure, Intellectual Property owners will try
and extend their control. See the secret ACTA treaty from which the
public are excluded, and is even outside purview of the World Trade
Organisation, and which did not originally address Intellectual
Property. etc.
Even GM crops are just another Intellectual Property land grab, dressed
up as in the Public Interest.
Intellectual Property, an idea that was never justified, never served
the purpose stated in the US constitution, and whose time has passed !
Pro Bono Publico - For the Public Good.
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