Cmdrcain -> RE: CD fee?!?! (8/12/2004 8:44:42 AM)
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ORIGINAL: ravinhood quote:
if the whackos in Congress pass their bills, then Vcrs, cd/dvd burners, a whole slew of things are illegal, wake up, the wackos are trying to fight piracy by making one liable for anything that might induce someone to illegal copy... go check it out.. Well it would help reduce piracy. I seem to recall a time when there were just VCR players and not recorders. I also remember a time when there were CD-Roms and not CD-burners. I also remember a time when there were no "hard-drives". It's kind of like this, if you put something into peoples hands that they can "abuse" they will abuse it. I can say this, if it will open up "returns and refunds" for things I don't like or that are faulty, I'm all for the law. I don't require a cd burner, I don't require a vcr recorder or dvd as seems to be the new age of media. I 'buy' vhs movies, I don't record them, I buy cd's music and games, I don't goto a pirate site and record them, so this law wouldn't bother me at all. I can only feel the people that would be against this law are people that might fall outside of this law from time to time if not all the time. Now as far as how they would work around hard-drives, I've been reading about this new type of PC console system that is coming out in the near future that all you do is put in the game CD and the system sets everything up for you, much like a console game does, but, pc games instead. I'd be all for this type of system as well if it works. But, hard-drives for businesses and whatnot, well, I'm sure they will work that out or figure out a way to still allow some form of media operation for businesses, and just eliminate home use, which with this new console system it would be just fine. Insert game cd, play, take it out, put something else in, and play. I see no problems there. If it will help drive the costs down to me, I'm all for any changes, if it will allow me to return and get a full refund for a faulty product or just not liking it, I'm all for it. Go Congress ;) And also, hehe direct download sales would have to go back to "retail"! YAY! ;) Gee what VCR PLAYERS you talking of? When VCR came out they were both recorders and players, the supreme court 5-4 ruled it was legal to sell vcrs due to the legal use of it. There were no Players only for Vcrs's. Cdroms? When cdroms came out there were Burners too, just that the burners were extremly expensive, tell me how a cdrom could be created without a burner LOL! Your for the Law without actually reading up what the law would allow? It would allow YOU to be sued purely if you recommended any means of copying (even for a legal purpose), its a law about broadly applying an "induce" standard so watch out. Heres link to bill: http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/INDUCE.html http://www.corante.com/importance/archives/005621.php http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,64315,00.html?tw=wn_story_top5
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