http://www.baldingangrily.com/2007/03/01/ha/ not gracefully Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:15:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 http://www.baldingangrily.com/2007/03/01/ha/#comment-312 Junior Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:48:24 +0000 http://www.baldingangrily.com/2007/03/01/ha/#comment-312 I totally feel you on this one. I too don't want to break the law, but I would like to watch movies where I want to. According to the DMCA, I can't rip a DVD to my laptop so I can watch it on the go, but I can bring the DVDs along with me to watch them on the go. Why can't I just rip and carry less? The good news is I have already sent my views to good old Joe Lieberman, but who knows what he will do. He is crazy. I totally feel you on this one. I too don’t want to break the law, but I would like to watch movies where I want to. According to the DMCA, I can’t rip a DVD to my laptop so I can watch it on the go, but I can bring the DVDs along with me to watch them on the go. Why can’t I just rip and carry less? The good news is I have already sent my views to good old Joe Lieberman, but who knows what he will do. He is crazy.

]]> http://www.baldingangrily.com/2007/03/01/ha/#comment-313 MagnusFromBerlin Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:37:11 +0000 http://www.baldingangrily.com/2007/03/01/ha/#comment-313 This is not US specific. We do have those same draconian laws... EU wide. For awhile it was even illegal to talk about bypassing copy protections... This is not US specific. We do have those same draconian laws… EU wide. For awhile it was even illegal to talk about bypassing copy protections…

]]> http://www.baldingangrily.com/2007/03/01/ha/#comment-314 alex Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:01:37 +0000 http://www.baldingangrily.com/2007/03/01/ha/#comment-314 Weird. I'm starting to read more and more about people wanting to take fair use back. Hopefully we'll start seeing more legislation that will force the hands of the RIAA and MPAA. Is it a myth that Germany, at one time, had laws forbidding to talk about the Holocaust? Weird. I’m starting to read more and more about people wanting to take fair use back. Hopefully we’ll start seeing more legislation that will force the hands of the RIAA and MPAA. Is it a myth that Germany, at one time, had laws forbidding to talk about the Holocaust?

]]> http://www.baldingangrily.com/2007/03/01/ha/#comment-315 MagnusFromBerlin Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:26:58 +0000 http://www.baldingangrily.com/2007/03/01/ha/#comment-315 Not to my knowledge, but you could get easily banned for such things, that is for sure... "The Producers" for example was banned in german for 30 years (it's not anymore). The display of nazi insignia also is a banning reason, but they found ways around that, otherwise we could have never seen "Raiders of the Lost Ark" for example... on the other hand the Star Trek episode "Patterns of Force" (thats the one with the nazis) was delayed for a 30 years ... But the main difference of course is that the ownership of Nazi paraphernalia itself isn't liable to prosecution (not even Mein Kampf) only the selling, while the holding of a DVD backup is... which puts it in the same legal realm as child pornography... Not to my knowledge, but you could get easily banned for such things, that is for sure… “The Producers” for example was banned in german for 30 years (it’s not anymore). The display of nazi insignia also is a banning reason, but they found ways around that, otherwise we could have never seen “Raiders of the Lost Ark” for example… on the other hand the Star Trek episode “Patterns of Force” (thats the one with the nazis) was delayed for a 30 years …
But the main difference of course is that the ownership of Nazi paraphernalia itself isn’t liable to prosecution (not even Mein Kampf) only the selling, while the holding of a DVD backup is… which puts it in the same legal realm as child pornography…

]]> http://www.baldingangrily.com/2007/03/01/ha/#comment-324 Junior Mon, 05 Mar 2007 06:51:10 +0000 http://www.baldingangrily.com/2007/03/01/ha/#comment-324 http://www.tuxick.net/pics/piracy2.jpg http://www.tuxick.net/pics/piracy2.jpg

]]> http://www.baldingangrily.com/2007/03/01/ha/#comment-325 alex Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:58:49 +0000 http://www.baldingangrily.com/2007/03/01/ha/#comment-325 Thanks Junior. Very cool indeed. Thanks Junior. Very cool indeed.

]]> http://www.baldingangrily.com/2007/03/01/ha/#comment-330 Junior Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:23:40 +0000 http://www.baldingangrily.com/2007/03/01/ha/#comment-330 I try. I try.

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