REALLY gets my back up. Again. This is what the media companies are
trying to (rightly) prevent with the broadcast flag.
> Andy Long wrote:
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No, this is not "rightly" something that media companies should be allowed to prevent. Under current law, they CAN'T prevent it. It is perfectly legal of you to lend a copy of a movie/TV show to a friend to borrow and watch. Would you assert that when you have friends over, they shouldn't be allowed to watch TV at your house because they don't help pay your cable bill? If you are the person who rents a movie at blockbuster, should your wife/girlfriend/kids have to also rent the movie before they can sit down and watch it with you? The broadcast flag is trying to enforce a legal lie that you are the only person who should be allowed to watch content that came from your television, when both previously written law and common law say otherwise. What she advocates doing is legal, and should remain legal as a form of fair use.
Yes, thank you. The willingness people have to just cave to anything the media industry says is very disheartening. We need to have some common sense about these things and not just allow industry to dictate the features and uses we're "allowed" to have.
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