DVD backups forbidden, P2P file sharers to become felons

[i am x]

man,that aint gonna stop me from backing up anything.
ill still do it,and so will millions of other users.
there going to have to get the bedroom police to stop people.

Wow, I feel like I wrote the above myself, cuz I feel EXACTLY the same way. How many people out there follow EVERY SINGLE LAW that is in a book somewhere? I'd say next to NONE. Hell, we're not even supposed to make copies of anything on videotape, including TV shows. How many people break THAT law everyday......

[proggy]

It's disapointing to see the low number of signatures. The petition to put futurama back on the air had over 130,000 signatures and it was still cancelled . I think an issue like this would require superbowl commercials or something.

[phonomas]

Hehe! I'm with x on this. I think someone on another thread was stating how it's illegal to conduct or receive oral sex in some states. I'll be jiggered if me & the wife are giving that one up. ...not to bring up the gravity analogy again!

[j1d10t]

What I want to know is how stupid are these law makers? How is it possible that their IQ is high enough that they can walk and breath at the same time, and yet they want to pass this law? You would think anyone with an IQ high enough to walk, breath, and talk at the same time wouldn't be so fu**ing stupid as to think this would be a good law.

But hey, let them pass it - I'll be out there copyrighting "facts" right and left, making a mockery of the system.

[CloudBurst]

The reason for the low number of signitures is probably because this pending legislation is not "public" knowledge, after all how many people visit this site and saw this thread as active on the main page since it started. Even if it were "public" knowledge (i.e. superbowl commercial), I believe that the majority of people would be too apathetic to care or to un-knowlegeable to figure out exactly what it may mean to them if people can copyright facts. And let's say that the message got through and there were hundreds of millions of signatures, I doubt it would really matter since those are just electronic signitures which do not translate equally with the dollars that corporations pump into the various governments so Mr. House Rep or Mr. President can either run for re-election or retire filthy rich (because we all know that they are not spending 10's of millions of dollars for a job that pay less than 300,000 dollars a year due to a sense of civic virtue).

Or maybe I am just overly cynical...

[jolo]

CloudBurst,

It is appropriate to be cynical, especially when the citizenry of the U.S. is so uninvolved and all of the media is basically owned by six different corporate owners. Heck, even here I once commented on a survey by the Forrester group and got a warning for it.

I think it would be a great idea for all of us to sign this survey and all pass it along to home pages of some of the bigshot "stars" who talk the talk but don't walk the walk. I personally am saddened that Springsteen just signed a huge contract with Sony records. But so many of them are so out of it being used to living a life of privilage, they don't know or care to do anything that might hurt them in their wallets/pocketbooks. Post this type of things on artists websites. Purchasing music from alternative ways (used, supporting Indie artists, etc) will go a long way.

I believe Tom Pertty, bless his heart got a song of his censored from his last album that was critical of the RIAA and the corporate ownership of radio. Heck with what clearchannel controls, they can blacklist a artist from exposure or any media coverage if they do something they don't like.

DON'T give up. We have the right to vote and getting Bush out in the U.S. will help enormously as all of the legislative people who are benefiting from the lobbyist money and supporting this anti-people legialation. We need to vote them out.

[jolo]

BJ_M,

Thank you BJ_M for alerting us about this. I have signed the petition and asked that my e-mail address be accessible to other petitioneers. I will be darned if I am going to be scared of those fascists.

Jon

[jaxxboss]

Remember, No means NO!.....Unless you're in prison

[SWjedi]

FulciLives wrote:

Sci-Fi becomes reality.

How many movies and/or books have there been about a future ruled more by BIG corporations than "real" government or "by the people"?

As is the usually the case with Sci-Fi what was once Science Fiction is now (becomming) Science Fact.

At least in the end we know that the machines will take over and more-or-less kill us all off.

Unless we terraform Mars by then.

Hey,
I heard that the monkeys are gonna control the machines that wipe us out!

[proxyx99]

Dear felons, time to pack our bags and move to Cayman Islands...

[mysticgohan17]

Time to sell some coke. Watch out for the po-po people!

[proxyx99]

I wonder how it will impact DVDR drive sales as well as blanks, will it shoot up in anticipation, or die down. That is not good news for all businesses involved in this industry. On the other hand, internet trends were always developing a step ahead of gov. agencies maybe we'll see sth similar (?). Certainly a danger of beeing charged with felony is not sth someone would look forward to.
One more thought. Until now Microsoft was seen by some as the ultimate evil. How about RIAA? Who would have thought that the balance would shift this way. M$ looks and feels quite warm and fuzzy now.

[SWjedi]

hey,
I would think that the industry would hang out in these forums...
you know to read what people like us are up to,what tools are being used
and stuff like that.

And you would think therefore,that they would post messages in defense of their attitude towards backups of dvds.To give their side of how burning a (s)vcd backup of a personally owned dvd movie causes them so much harm.

Just a thought.

[quickfire]

OK...LET ME SEE IF I UNDERSTAND WHAT IS BEING SAID IN THIS THREAD!!!!!If I buy a DVDwriter/burner.....and decide to download a dvd burning/shrinking program off of the internet then i could be sued????If thats the case then I'm going to ask for something else for my X-Mas gift................P.S don't alll DVD writers/burner's come with DVd burning programs with the DVD burning hardware??????I don't want to get sued for some dvd burning crap...I'll just buy mine from Columbia House like I always have....

[that noob]

I hereby claim that 2 plus 2 = 4. Every elementary in the Western Hemisphere must now pay me $.25 for every student they try to teach this to. If some little bastard doesn't get it the first time, it's gonna cost another quarter every time they have to say it again.

I think if we bog the system down with this BS then the law will be changed quickly.


This is what happens when you let lawyers make the laws.