Just a thought here... Is the issue really that we don't want the law to stop (garage door openers and unintended consequenses aside) the circumvention of protections that are in place (encryption and DRM) OR is it that various vendors use these technologies in a manner that is unnaceptable to begin with.
Is the issue really rooted in an insufficient legal description of rights/ownership? In purchasing a DVD with its encrypted content, are we unknowingly accepting the implied restrictions on copying from a legal standpoint and is it acceptable that vendors are allowed to sell media this way without spelling it out to the consumer. For that matter, forget spelling it out, is it acceptable that the vendor uses technologies like this at all? Of course, having said all that, I don't relish the thought of my copying a purchased movie on to my media machine becoming any more 'illegal' than it is today, and I don't appreciate my government helping the 'vendor' along the way. I just wonder if the underlying argument doesn't hold enough water. On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 13:43 -0600, Mark Carlson wrote: > On 7/4/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > -- > > > [29.22](3) Subsection (1) does not apply if the reproduction is made onto > > > a medium that is governed by > > > Part VIII. > > > -- > > > > > > This would/might make sense if the word 'reproduction' was replaced with > > 'recording', however that is not the case. > > > > Further reading still makes me believe that this clause means that it > > would be illegal to record purchased audio onto an mp3 player. > > > > Simon. > > Even an MP3 player which has had the private copying levy applied to > it? It's all silly anyway, since there was no levy payed for the CPU > cache, RAM, and Hard Disk which are often intermediate storage. > > -Mark C. > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
