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Christopher Meredith wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:06 AM, ryan patterson <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ryan.goat@gmail.com"><ryan.goat@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Christopher Meredith
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<pre wrap="">On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:01 AM, David Asher <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:asherml@gmail.com"><asherml@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Actually doesn't the DMCA expressly forbid removing the encryption from a
DVD even for your own purposes? Of course, only in the US.
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<pre wrap="">While I was speaking mainly in terms of the Copyright Act and fair
use, you bring up a good point. Not only does the DMCA forbid ripping
DVDs you already own, it also forbids even *watching* them in Linux.
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<pre wrap="">No the DMCA is very specific. It forbids removing the encryption from
a DVD for the express purpose of circumventing the copyright.
Removing the encryption for other purposes is permitted, but not
defined. Of coarse according to the MPAA, removing the encryption in
order to watch your DVD on anything but a authorized device (for
example: linux, iphone, etc.) is a copyright violation. Most
consumers disagree. This ambiguity has not been definitively defined
by the courts.
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Sec. 1201(a)(1)(A) of the DMCA says that "[n]o person shall circumvent
a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work
protected under this title." It doesn't mention the purpose for which
the circumvention is employed. Sec. 1201(a)(3)(A) defines "circumvent"
as "to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or
otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a
technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner."
Because DeCSS is not licensed or approved, it amounts to a
circumvention of commercial DVD encryption. Under the plain language
of the statute, the use of DeCSS (for ripping or even watching) is a
violation of the DMCA.
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I'm so glad we don't have that (yet) in Canada. I would hope that our
lawmakers would listen to the people and enact fair-use for oneself to
be able to watch the media they purchase on any equipment they have or
will have in the future. I do believe in it is a crime to share media
or use media/materials that you have not purchased but where you have,
why restrict us. The last law our government tried to put in was not
what people wanted and the campaign to stop it was massive. The law is
stalled at this point.<br>
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Norm<br>
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