"DarkMatter" wrote in message ...
On Sun, 7 Mar 2004 18:01:23 -0800, "Mike Kohary" Gave
us:

"Justin" wrote in message
...
Mike Kohary wrote on [Sun, 7 Mar 2004 17:18:48 -0800]:

There is nothing illegal about taping a DVD for your own private use.
What
is technically illegal, under the DMCA, is breaking the Macrovision
protection in order to make that copy. Does that seem logical to you,
that
making the copy is legal, but circumventing the copy protection is not?

Are you sure it's just the Macrovision, and not the copy encryption as
well?

Macrovision is "copy encryption" (or copy protection, as I'd put it). It
doesn't matter what the copy protection scheme is; the DMCA applies equally
to all.


Damn! The twit got one right!

The DMCA is going down in flames. Court cases dealing with
the exact same issues (circumvention of copy protection and
encryption) have come up before, always with the same eventual
results:

http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Elco...17_eff_pr.html

http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/DVDCCA_c...227_eff_pr.php

etc.

Also, last year two separate bills were introduced in Congress
to protect consumer fair use rights for digital content:

http://www.protectfairuse.org/consum..._plotline.html

In just five short years the guts of the DMCA have already
proven to be ill-conceived, ridiculously broad, and in the end,
unconstitutional.

DarkMatter, pay attention and learn something.

Rick