Hi Terr: You've raised two issues I'll comment on. Copyright applies to making something like a tape of a TV show. Generally, one can make one photocopy of something for one's personal use or research. I think the new copyright law was finally introduced; it's been a long time in the making. I don't know what the TV people think about VCRs.
The inability to watch a pre-made DVD (is that what you meant?) on Linux is related to mechanical rights. It could be that the manufacturer(s) are 1. unaware of the Linux market; 2. think it is too small for a cost/benefit; 3. think it might be too complicated to produce and/or market a different format. So the answer would be talking with manufacturers about the issue (and perhaps helping them develop the format). Ellen On 23 February 2011 23:46, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Precisely. WHatever DRM might be in place now... there is a good chance it > will be broken in the very near future. > > > > Another related issue is CBC programming and this of course spills into > CTV, Global, etc. > > They have tried to erect "walls" which means if you take a trip and want to > see something while out of the country... forget it. If you want to copy it > to your hard drive while say visiting an internet cafe forget it. This > means if you are camped by the lake forget it. > > > There are open formats like Vorbis and I think we need to be demanding that > the programming they put on line is available in vorbis. > > > Here is another issue... what of the Calgary Public Library? I can borrow > from 1000's of books and DVD's. However even though they "say" they have an > online service and even though as the tax payer I have paid for this... its > not available to me. Note that while the partron pays I think $25 bux for a > library membership... the taxpayer forks over at least 5x this. > > Of course we all know the taxpayer pays a hefty chunk for CBC. > > > Well - we've paid for it... so why can't we have open access to it? > > > In the past if we want to tape a TV program so we can show it to a friend > or watch it at another time we had the right to so this. As we go digital > we're losing our rights > > Do we have any lawyers who can answer this? Does copyright to say a DVD > allow whoever owns the copyright to deny me the right to watch the DVD on my > linux machine? Does CBC have the right to force me to fork over cash to > microsoft? apple? I already have all the copies of windows for instance > that I want. But NT4.0 is out of date and I don't think it can access their > programming anyways. > > > To me this is like CBC telling me I have to buy an RCA television and if I > want to use a Toshiba then I should screw off. > > What about City Hall? Shouldn't I have the right to access their material > on the Calgary web site in Vorbis? > > Maybe we need to look into some legal challenges. This might be done via > small claims and the key is that if we can get a judgment then the city will > have no excuses. But of course I'm not a lawyer so I don't know. Opinions? > > > > > > I this particular situation we should be demanding that the 'flow' is > > actually an open format. > > > > Want happens when their propriatory DRM server is taken off line in a few > > years time... you lose access to the media you purchased? > > > > Simon > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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