I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
"When the culture scolds say the Democrats should be standing up to "Hollywood," it's this kind of thing they should be talking about."
Word em up.
Having read recently of the bill making it legal to censor sex and violence out of movies, to "Disneify" them, if you will, and then redistribute them...
I was thinking then the reverse must be legal as well, that is to say...
If you can take the sex and violence out of a movie, sometimes changing the whole meaning of the film in the process,
then surely it must be legal to take movies and add sex and violence.
So, toute de suite I would like to see some company making scads of dough doing a retouched "Ten Commandments" a la "Debbie does Dueteronomy".
In celebration, I spent the entire day downloading bootlegged DVD's!
In Jesus' name, of course!
Cup O' Joe - Blog Of The Working Man!
justathought - check the Black Brothers film library.
They've probally done it already.
Put your money where your mouth is!
The unanimous ruling by the three-judge panel, in an important case at the intersection of intellectual property and technology, was a stinging rebuke for the Federal Communications Commission. The court said the commission exceeded its authority when it approved the rules in 2003.
Eh?..trolls?..what do you wish to add?
I have to go and make a cup of decaf espresso and pretend that it really is morning here! 
It's actually very dark and the dogs are snoring away.
Decaf?
EOTS...it's my witching hour.
...I got nuthin'.
Yossarian, use some magic to make espresso, even without caf. It works if you believe hard! Or so the wingnuts tell me.
I don't understand how this works.
Why is Atrios not interested at all in the Franklin arrest?
Please post about my pet issue! Please! If you don't post about my pet issue it's proof you're trying to cover something up because if it doesn't appear on this blog it doesn't exist!
i'm sick of tyrannical corporate whore legislation. libertarians always talk about the evils of the state but never mention business lobbying for tyranny
Well, to the corporate worshiping right wing the only bad business is one which values it's workers above it's stockholders and/or gives money to Democrats. The culture warriors are very selective in their criticism as they see the merchant class as the rightfull local level overseers of the proles. Inside a business office or a factory floor you can relive the glory days of old where an underling can be humiliated, threatend, and forced to recite words of submission. Next on the agenda: maybe a bill to allow supervisors to arm themselves? If I were the mean spirited type I'd bet I could start a rumor that Wal-Mart wants to issue tasers to its inner city management. I'd never do such an irresponsible thing of course, I'm just sayin'. 
This is really good news. The broadcast flag would have made it impossible to record HDTV programs.
I believe Congress should require copy machines to include technology that would prevent people from making copies of any copyrighted material.
This is really good news. The broadcast flag would have made it impossible to record HDTV programs.
pcHDTV still has a large stock of non-BF cards, and could have sould them no matter what.
Now, they are in an even better position. And they are good quality.
When the culture scolds...
You mean the fake culture scolds. Just refering to them as culture scolds gives them an appearance of validity, however small. Not only are they scolds but they don't actually believe any of the principles they're scolding about. See Bill Bennett and Henry Hyde.
They're totally fake. I think it's important to point this out every time we refer to them.
It's also important to close the italics tag.
Hmm..By "culture scolds", I took that to be those on the left who claim that pop culture is 100% rubbish and we should spend all our time reading the "classics".
But yeah. I guess that fits even more for the Lieberman/Bennett/Dobson whatever world.
How stunning - a court decision that relies on primary documents - e.g. the actual, original, the enabling Communications Act of 1934. Which, incidentally, if it fell under the constraints of the Millenium Copyright Act could not be reproduced without authorisation and payment because it's less than 75 years old.
Can't quite roll back -all- of the New Deal, can we Shrubbie.....
Damn de-activating judges ...
Heard about it yesterday...Haven't really digested it. I thought it was a good thing, too, though
But... but.. but.. this derails the plan to eventually move all digital content to pay-per-use. The entertainment conglomerates won't have guaranteed revenue streams, and will have to lay off employees.
Those employees have families, some with children. Their parents will be out of a job because of these judges.
What abot the children? doesn't anybody care about the children?
Damn these activist judges!
Question for the technically smart:
I'm trying to dub part of a DVD onto a tape, but the picture blurs on and off , I presume because of a bug they put in the DVD so it couldn't be copied.
Is there a way around this ?
I'm doing this for school (I'm a teacher). I prefer to dub relevant sections of movies back-to-back onto one tape, rather than load and unload a bunch of DVD's.
email me or , haloscan with ideas. thanks !
This is an excellent result on procedural grounds as well as substantive grounds. On the substanbtive front it's great news because it means that the wankers can't [yet] dictate to consumer electronics manufacturers what they have to put into the appliances they make, and ergo dictate to consumers what those appliances come with or without.
But it's even better on procedural grounds since this was something that the FCC had passed all on its own. Michael Powell and the rest of the crazed "imited government conservatives" were taking their authority to mis-rule and destroy what goes out over the public airways and arrogantly trying to extend it to products you use in the privacy of their own home.
"Limited government" to these bastards means a government that limits anything you do to only what they approve of.
It was a significant victory for libraries
Yes, it is! Now if we can just get rid of Section 215 of the Patriot Act.
I believe Congress should require copy machines to include technology that would prevent people from making copies of any copyrighted material.
Susie
Heh. I think we need to create paper copies that disintegrate at the end of each semester. This would assist with "fair use" and messy desk cleanup.
I believe Congress should require copy machines to include technology that would prevent people from making copies of any copyrighted material.
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Heh. Try it (as a hypothetical educational exrcise only) with currency (US or Euro)or try opening a scanned currency image in the current version of Photoshop. It's already here.
It really surprises me how the so-called 'hollywood' execs, with all their resources, can't spend some money to hire someone to tell them this is all futile.
Chances are they did hire some company to consult them, but the company itself, fearing the loss of the contract so soon in it's term because they knew the answer was so obvious so soon, chose to prolong the contract, and it's money, by blowing smoke up their client's asses and tellin them they could stop the flow of pirated movies by passing the legislation.
If true then it just proves that the hollywood execs are not just greedy, but idiotic fools to boot. I wouldn't be surprised if their consulters aren't laughing at them right now.
It's not because the legislation failed but because the legislation wouldn't have done any good.
As long as there are features in a computer that allow copying of something that something is going to include materials that can be pirated.
The only way the industries are going to stop pirating is to eliminate home computers all together.
As stupid as these people are I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't actually consider the plan.
MYOB'
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this should be a good "litmus test" to see how, on each side, is in the bag for Hollywood.
as someone with a lot of hollywood clients, this all comes down to one thing - and i've heard this from the horse's mouf - it's all about selling broadcast television boxed sets.
they will NOT be able to sell things, they believe, if people can tivo what they want, then bump it down to their HD DVD recorder.
but what they fail to realize, of course, is that people could do that during the VHS era, and they still bought VHS - why? because:
1. packaging - it's often very good
2. additional content - interviews, behind the scenes, etc.
3. commentary tracks
these three elements alone compel the average viewer into buying what they could record on their own.
but, anything that is an impedance to easy money is a threat. period.
that's the culture out here. i'm so tired of it.
this should be a good "litmus test" to see how, on each side, is in the bag for Hollywood.
Here's a hint:
All of them.
It will only be a matter of months, at the most, before Congress decides to pass this stupid law on their own.
And if the broadcast flag ever actually gets implemented, it will be a matter of hours before the open-source community has found and distributed a way to fix it. 
2 things: this isn't that big of a victory. all the court said was that the FCC overstepped its bounds. what's the likelihood that Congress won't give it that authority? In two years, we'll have broadcast flags--just watch.
and as far as this goes: How stunning - a court decision that relies on primary documents - e.g. the actual, original, the enabling Communications Act of 1934. Which, incidentally, if it fell under the constraints of the Millenium Copyright Act could not be reproduced without authorisation and payment because it's less than 75 years old.
The government cannot hold copyrights.
17 U.S.C. § 105:
"Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise."
Hate to be a wet blanket, but just want to keep things real.
Speaking of culture scolds, did anyone catch Duelin' Zell Miller on The Daily Show a while back? He's out promoting his book "A Deficit of Decency" (I think) and the only indecency he could point out was the dirty words in 'gansta rap' as he put it. Got to love those southern roots showing.
The genie got out when formats went digital - as long as they were analog copy quality degraded. Hence and advantage to buying source material. CD's did them in.
There is no way to stop copying short of hardware encryption. Even then I guess the hardware key could be duplicated but I never saw this. BTW this whole issue was already played out to a loss in the 80's with respect to software.
Hmm..By "culture scolds", I took that to be those on the left who claim that pop culture is 100% rubbish and we should spend all our time reading the "classics".
But yeah. I guess that fits even more for the Lieberman/Bennett/Dobson whatever world.
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With that comment the transit of the word "left" into the realm of complete absurdity is complete. Does he mean "New Soviet Realist" classics?
I'm trying to dub part of a DVD onto a tape, but the picture blurs on and off , I presume because of a bug they put in the DVD so it couldn't be copied.
There are several ways:
1) Purchase a small box for $25 that will recreate the signals that Macrovision destroys. It plugs in between DVD-out and the VCR-in. Do a Google search for "Macrovision" or "Video Enhancer".
2) Find a way to disable Macrovision for your DVD player in the players firmware. This depends on the make/model. Do a Google search for your product and "macrovision" "hack" or some combination.
3) Purchase a Macrovision-free internal DVD drive for your Linux box.
Together with a decent graphics/TV card with Video output, you can easily rip DVDs and output to your VCR.
Example for 1):
http://www.everlastinglove.com/electronics/
copy_dvd.htm
can disney really afford not to be present in the next broadcast medium?
Is steamboat willie such a valulable property now that movies are color? Will snow white be able to maintain value in the face of all digital all interactive entertainment?
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