DMCA Comments HOWTO 23
pberry writes "As previously reported here on slashdot, the Copyright Office is looking for suggestions for new exemptions to the DMCA. The EFF has posted a nice HOWTO document to make your comments as effective as possible."
Changes (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Changes (Score:2)
CD music, and CD+G Compact discs with graphics, the most common format for Karaoke music.
I propose that it should be allowed for the measures that prevent "copy protected" CDs from being played in a computer. Many use a computer as their sole method of playing discs, and have no intention of copying them. One example from personal experience is a karoke disc entitled Headbangers Hits Volume X, manufactured by Soun Choice Karaoke. I use a computer as my sole player of Karaoke media, as I do not own a dedicated karaoke player. The disc in question uses a copy protection scheme that makes it unplayable in a computer. Allegedly the purpose of this is to prevent unauthorized copying. My intention is only to play the disc, and means to circumvent the "copy protection" may exist, but the DMCA makes it illegal for me to use them. Without an exemption for playing CDs in a computer, simply playing a disc I own in my computer would make me a criminal.
Seth Finkelstein (Score:1)
Step one (Score:3, Funny)
Incase it gets slashdotted, here's the probably content:
1) Include lots of money with your letter
2) Legistature change
3) There is no step three!
Damn DMCA (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Damn DMCA (Score:3, Insightful)
Not trying to troll here folks, but it's things like this that makes me glad I don't live in America sometimes.
You'll be less glad when Bush, Ashcroft and Rumsfeld decide to declare war on your country for some random reason under the guise of the war on terror! :)
GMD
Re:Damn DMCA (Score:1)
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Re:Damn DMCA (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Damn DMCA (Score:1)
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(Relax, I'm just kidding. I've been to Australia several times, and I love it. Can't wrap my head around the whole "Vegemite" idea, but you guys have much cooler currency than we do, and your woman are far, far sexier. Gotta confess, though, that I'm a died-in-the-wool All-Blacks supporter. But other than that, Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!)
Re:Damn DMCA (Score:3, Funny)
And don't worry, I know how insignificant we are.
"Quick we're being invaded! Send in the Airforce!"
"We can't"
"Why not??"
"The propellor's broken"
"Ok then, send in the Navy!"
"Sorry, no can do"
"Why is that?"
"There's a hole in the sail"
"What about the Army?"
"Afraid not"
"No?"
"He's fixing the propellor"
my favorite reason to oppose it... (Score:2)
It's nuts! Now to find a way to put that into proper legalese gobbledegook.
The other point which is very hard to get across to "them" is, it's partly, and this is legit, it's these mega cartels own fault for conspiring to jack up prices to such a ridiculous level that people consider it not only their right to copy and share, but a "payback" of sorts. People aren't stupid, they know full well that cd music is way over priced. It's like the "volume sales" concept has been lost on them. Put out your product at a more reasonable price, then it'll sell, end of story, and for that matter, isn't this what the blank cd copy tax is for in the first place?
I know there's outfits out their try to make bona fide looking counterfeits, this is a different story. There's a big difference between some outfit pumping out thousands of cloned copies to make money and individuals making copies for their own use and to share amongst their peer-enthusiasts. to me that's a more realistic dividing line, are you doing it for profit? Is it someone's illegitimate business model to counterfeit? At that point, sure, enforce the law, anything but that, nope, not seeing it.
Too bad normal "plain talk" doesn't appear to be worthy enough to send in, what the heck, I'll try both ways, can't hurt...
And if it gets hard wired into hardware, swell, I'll just keep using old hardware then, no biggee to me. Ya, it might affect my second career as a basement cyclotron builder,heh, but really, I'll just stick to old used hardware then, I won't be buying any crippled hardware anytime soon.
Re:my favorite reason to oppose it... (Score:3, Insightful)
How about this: (Score:2, Funny)
Except try to say it nicely and don't be so vitriolic.
Quit whining and go submit a useful comment... (Score:4, Insightful)
Sure, it took me the better part of an hour to craft what I thought was a good argument for the inclusion of circumvention of Region Encoding in this ruling. Luckily I didn't have to go far to find a concrete example, the "Futurama" DVDs. (Love the show, really want the DVDs. They were only released in the UK a.k.a. Region 2.)
My point is, if you have something you want to be able to hack, then get off your ass and go tell the people that are going to make the descion.
Some ideas (Score:2)
class of works 1: player device software or firmware designed to impede
interoperability of the player with independent 3rd party works. Examples: "mod chips" for game consoles
class of works 2: digital works sold to the public for which no analogue TPM-free
analogue version is published, "in print", and generally available for sale [if fair use is not raped b/c analogue is available then require it to be available for that reason]
class of works 3: Works published or owned by companies or authors that engage in
anticompetitive business practices, antitrust violations, and/or deceptive trade practices
involving their copyrighted products. The period of exception shall begin upon the
rendering of a final judgement or legal settlement against the company and shall last
until three years pass without a judicial or settlement finding of continued improper
behavior. Examples: MS for antitrust, RIAA for price fixing
class of works 4: data sets, lists, databases, or other collections whose individual
elements are public domain facts, not the original expression of the data set creator or
licensing contributor thereto, or otherwise not copyrightable by the data set creator. Examples: the CDDB thing, the recent price list thing
class of works 5: a work or compilations containing a work whose copyright has expired Examples: DVD's of the really old movies
No respect for the law (Score:1)