"DarkMatter" wrote in message ...
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 23:05:11 -0800, "Rick" Gave us:


No, consumers and media companies. Consumers who,
according to our courts, have the rights to time shift and
space shift their digital media.

NO. RETARD BOY! Time shifting is ONLY related to a broadcast
segment, not ANY stream popping off your DVD player... EVER!

Read the court decisions, you idiot:

Sony v. Universal City Studios, 1984:
"Private, noncommercial time-shifting in the home satisfies this
standard of noninfringing uses both because respondents have
no right to prevent other copyright holders from authorizing such
time-shifting for their programs, and because the District Court's
findings reveal that even the unauthorized home time-shifting of
respondents' programs is legitimate fair use."

This decision was reaffirmed by a U.S. District Court in 1999,
even after passage of the DMCA. The RIAA didn't appeal
because they knew damned well they would lose:

RIAA v. Diamond Multimedia, 1999:
"In fact, the Rio's operation is entirely consistent with the [Home
Recording] Act's main purpose - the facilitation of personal use.
As the Senate Report explains, "the purpose of the Act is to
ensure the right of consumers to make analog or digital recordings
of copyrighted media for their private, noncommercial use". Cf.
Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios (1984, holding
that "time-shifting" constitutes fair use under the Copyright Act,
and thus is not an infringement). Such copying is paradigmatic
noncommercial personal use entirely consistent with the
purposes of the Act."

The DMCA has failed more
legal challenges than it has passed,

You're an idiot.

Sorry, saying it doesn't make it so. See above.

Rick