ScottyGEE wrote:Recording things like that is becoming illegal...As I said manufactorors of major mp3 players (except ipod because they don't have any features ) are being forced (or are under pressure) to remove microphones and radio features on devices to stop people from recordning music they shouldnt....
The lawsuits have already begun:
/. article: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/19/214229 wrote:"A federal judge has ruled that Music Companies can take XM Radio to trial over the XM+MP3 device that allows users to record songs off the Satellite Radio Company's network for playback later. The lawsuit, which was filed last year, asserts that XM is violating the Music publishers' sole distribution rights. From the article: 'XM has argued it is protected from infringement lawsuits by the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992, which permits individuals to record music off the radio for private use. The judge said she did not believe the company was protected in this instance by the act.'"
I really wonder if the idiots behind American law, copyright law, the DMCA, etc. are being paid of fby the large industries like the MPAA and RIAA. I mean, the Audio Home Recording Act is a 100% legitimate defense and this case should have never seen the court system, but the judge says it doesn't apply" and that's enough.
Oh screw this, I'm buying an island on international waters and starting a secret invite-only society.
My island will be a refuge for people who are either:
A. Intelligent
B. Attractive
C. Any combination of those two or invited by myself
I imagine an army of super-intelligent people who look like Scarlett Johansson. However, it's possible this could backfire and I wind up with ugly morons. I'll figure something out.
Now that I'm done rspamming about my impossible Utopian society, I'd like to point out ocne again that the RIAA/MPAA are indeed a bunch of thugs who are hell-bent on screwing over the consumer. Between DRM and HDCP, consumers are pretty much losing no matter what they do. I almost considered purchasing an HD-DVD player, but the concept of spending $30 on a movie that I can't:
1. Watch in my PC even with a HD-DVD drive
2. Rip to my PC even though I have an HD-DVD drive
3. Backup to another disc as to protect my $30 from my own/family members' inevitable irresponsability
is a huge deterrent. I copied a lot of my more often used DVDs so that they could be used at home and in the car without having to worry about which DVD drive they were in - this way there wasn't the possibility of one of my parents being out in the car that has the movie I wanted to watch at home. It also protects me from having the original expensive disc ruined if the car hits a bump too hard and the drive ruins the disc or if a disc winds up on the floor. Sigh...
The movie and music industries could do things right with media and have one more customer, but isntead they'll just have one more seed on the Bittorrent network.
maybe if music was easier to buy and keep (hello thar, drm) there wouldn't be so many pirates out there. maybe if music was sold for how much it was actually worth, we wouldn't have this. seriously, $20 for a cd with as little as 7 tracks on it? i'm sure that's more than a 300% profit.
we just need to wait until the RIAA makes one mis-step, and then i'm sure there'll be lawyers all over them.
If they spent 5 min to go threw there p2p programs options they can easily turn off uploading of files and learn not to keep anything inside the folder that the program downloads to.
I just can't wait until some rich guy fights back against them with the best lawyer money can buy and shuts them down. truthfully, the world will be better.
) are being forced (or are under pressure) to remove microphones and radio features on devices to stop people from recordning music they shouldnt....
