No more downloading/burning????

[mopar611]

I was listening on the radio today that a lawsuit has been filed in the supreme court in Colorado in which the programmers of software that allows file sharing or downloading and try to sue them. So a vcr, ipod, itunes, cd burners, dvd burner, or any other recording/downloading device would now be illegal if the supreme court votes for it.

Maybe someone with more knowledge on this could elaborate on it more.

Mopar

[#40Fan]

LOL, doubt that will happen. There is no way in hell a VCR will become illegal.

[ghost71799]

You are saying that every person in the world would go to jail for owning a VCR, damn that is ff'ed up.

It has been so long since I last used my VCR, when I went to try to put a tape in a spider came running out and looked at me with those sad eight little eyes as if I was kicking him out of his house.

Ghost

[mopar611]

I dont really understand it myself, but thats what they said. Like they are really gonna outlaw a vcr.

The music industry is losing a shit load of money from sites like limewire for file sharing. I think that is really what they are gunning for. You sue for the whole shittn thing and to make everyone happy they give you 1 thing and it will probably be the 1 thing you were after the whole time.

Mopar

[Stocko]

Sony has been down this road before. Courts ruled yr's ago that VCR's are legal to own and use. This whole issue has come up again due to the proliferation of methods to swipe protected content. VCR's, PVR's, DVD recorders, Torrents, file sharing and on and on.

Stocko

[smilingjack]

The digital millenium copyright act.

It is a very loosley written piece of shit that, can be interperted a million different ways. A lot of coutry's have signed the ne winternational law.

Depending on how different Lawyers, prosecutors, hudges & courts interperte and enforce it can make zerox inc. a outlaw company and use of a copy machine illegal.

IT was written primarily (by) for the music industry but Charlie, Dave Bev and the rest jumped on the band wagon too. The movie industry is close behind, they have been going after people like DVD-X copy, a $ 100 program to copy DVD's, had it made illegal, even though you can go on the web and download dvdshrink.org which does the same thing FREE

Many companies are concerned about it. It is the reason that most sites have done away with TSOP banks, TSOP's are copyrighted material.

We are in for a world of lawsuits and court decisions which will go all the way back to the first copy machine argument.

So yes, they could outlaw your VCR, after all they tried to do that before it ever came out claiming copyright infringment.

he he he

[normsbro]

for you yank's contact the EFF, the electronic frontier foundation????, they are fighting for your right to download

[smilingjack]

"You Yanks" Sounds like you are a limey normsbro :)

I hope those guys have deep pockets.
Big bucks behind the enforcment of DMCA
WORLDWIDE

Please post their address / link if you have it. May get some info there.

Another site just dumped their BEV files, said RCMP were getting heavy on sites about copyright infringment. They were up and down so oftem lately makes everyone wonder if they were busted too. Refusing to answer questions about it. (home of NEO) sattech.ca

dishnewbys is going paid only too. (closed to public)

Sj

[scottymac]

Thank goodness I live in Canada, where we condone piracy so much, consumers pay for it everytime they purchase blank media. Kind of like a license to steal copywrited material.

I saw a spindle of 50 Maxell CD-Rs for $15 dollars, but with the 'piracy levy' the price at the till was $25.50.

So, as Canadians, it is your duty to download and burn pirated material. You've already paid for it.

[smilingjack]

Sounds like an opening for a lucrative smuggling venture, why not, everything from wiskey to ciggarettes to people & dope is already brought across that (LOL) 'border' why not CD's & DVD's too.

Highway robbery $ 10.50 on a $15 purchase, that's worse than Texas. (.51 EA.)

I just bought memorex DVD's for $ 20 for 50 + 1.60 state sales tax (8%) (.41 EA.)

Sj

[normsbro]

just a canadian who watches too much brit comedy, sj.

[smilingjack]

Oh well the limey's are easier to understand than Canadians speaking wise.

(but not in Canadian made TV shows, they all seem to speak U.S. english)

I Understand Canadian comedy better than british houmor though, good thing, half our TV shows here come from Canada. The good ones anyway. We have rubbed off on you.

I talk to people from all over the world every day, Suprisingly I rate speaking english by other people as

Easy to hard to understand.

Easy to understand.

1. Chinese - good english schools
2. British - they invented it after all
3. Mexicans - if they speak english at all
4. Canadians
5. Central europeans
6. French
6. Austrailians - talk about murdering the Kings English
7. Carribean Islanders other than British & americans possesions

Hard to understand.

Say La Vie, Addy ous

Sj :):):)