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Offline Siaf__csf

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« on: May 14, 2005, 01:48:05 PM »
Will soon be land of the MPAA/RIAA.

Big money lobbying away your rights. Schweet.

Clickety click
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Offline Nilsen

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« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2005, 02:03:34 PM »
I really don't care what they do. They can't bother my anyway.
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Offline Raider179

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« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2005, 02:03:56 PM »
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Will soon be land of the MPAA/RIAA.

Big money lobbying away your rights. Schweet.

Clickety click


You mean our right to steal and distribute other people's work???

Doesn't matter what they make someone will hack it in a month after its out. Don't sweat it. Thats the least of my rights I am worried about.
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Offline Nashwan

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« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2005, 02:40:24 PM »
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You mean our right to steal and distribute other people's work???


No, the right to record a broadcast TV  programme so that you can watch it at a more convient time. (With a video recorder, Tivo, computer or whatever)

The broadcast flag means that the broadcaster gets to decide whether you can record or not.

Hollywood tried a similar challenge to ban video recorders in the early 80s, they lost, but they don't seem to have learned anything from that (they made vast amounts of money out of videos)
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Offline Sandman

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« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2005, 10:37:01 PM »
I think the cable networks might have a legitimate gripe, but the broadcast networks need to realize that we (the people) own the frequencies they're using.
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« Reply #5 on: May 15, 2005, 10:37:01 AM »

.....and be sure not to tear off the tag on that mattress. :)
  Much to do about nothing.
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« Reply #6 on: May 15, 2005, 10:41:49 AM »
sciaf... if you spend so much time worrying about our country why don't you just move here or...

better yet.... stop worrying about it and worry about what is going on in your country of lower slobovia... I am sure that there is plenty of bad things going on there to concern you.

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Offline Pooh21

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« Reply #7 on: May 15, 2005, 10:43:55 AM »
Nothing bad going on in a socialist workers paradise
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« Reply #8 on: May 15, 2005, 10:50:59 AM »
hence you euros are able to concentrate on the one remaining superpower.

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« Reply #9 on: May 15, 2005, 11:13:33 AM »
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Originally posted by Nashwan
No, the right to record a broadcast TV  programme so that you can watch it at a more convient time. (With a video recorder, Tivo, computer or whatever)

The broadcast flag means that the broadcaster gets to decide whether you can record or not.


When was it a right to record broadcast TV programs?
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Offline Siaf__csf

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« Reply #10 on: May 15, 2005, 11:59:21 AM »
Lazs unfortunately the decisions made in the US affect also us in the long run. That's why it's necessary to try to kill the madness at its source.
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« Reply #11 on: May 15, 2005, 12:40:34 PM »
siaf... who is "us"?   I have no idea if things we do here affect you in lower slobovia or not.   You are talking about Americans recording American programs made by American artists.   How does that affect you?

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Offline Siaf__csf

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« Reply #12 on: May 15, 2005, 01:01:26 PM »
There's no such thing as a local market anymore lazs. But I don't expect you to understand.
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« Reply #13 on: May 15, 2005, 01:06:02 PM »
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Originally posted by Sandman
I think the cable networks might have a legitimate gripe, but the broadcast networks need to realize that we (the people) own the frequencies they're using.



Exactly,
fox, abc, cbs, etc have nothing to say about people recording shows from their stations but the cable companies should be able to control what they pay to air.



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Offline Siaf__csf

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« Reply #14 on: May 15, 2005, 01:31:24 PM »
This judgement is just one step on the way of limiting consumer rights on a global level.

They won't stop there. Soon you'll be forced to verify everything you do through MPAA/RIAA hosts. They'll ask for a permission to scan your computers for copyright materials and delete suspected at will. They'll want to make you pay for each time you listen or access a copyrighted title on your harddrive or through some controlled service.

Thier greed stops at nothing. Even though you've purchased a right to use music titles they'll want to charge you again over it somehow. Online music is already licensed for a limited period only - meaning you pay the standard price to listen to a song but will get your access denied after a period of time if you won't keep feeding RIAA more money.

They've found a superb way to force you, the consumers, into paying payment after payment by lobbying and greasing your congressmen into making laws which give MPAA/RIAA basically a carte blanche on licensing enforcement.

Soon you'll be arrested for whistling a song publicly unless you pay public performance license for it.
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