http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/May 24th 2007 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/May 24th 2007 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/
It could be argued that you owe the environment and your electricity bill to de-AACS every title you buy and then play the decrypted version in the future. Save our planet - ban DRM!

See recent Anantech article on 8600GTS HD decode to see that the (CPU) overhead of decrypting AACS.]]>May 24th 2007 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9719339-7.html

Gonzales proposes new crime: 'Attempted' copyright infringement

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is pressing the U.S. Congress to enact a sweeping intellectual-property bill that would increase criminal penalties for copyright infringement, including "attempts" to commit piracy.

"To meet the global challenges of IP crime, our criminal laws must be kept updated," Gonzales said during a speech before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington on Monday.

The Bush administration is throwing its support behind a proposal called the Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2007, which is likely to receive the enthusiastic support of the movie and music industries, and would represent the most dramatic rewrite of copyright law since a 2005 measure dealing with prerelease piracy.

Here's our podcast on the topic.

The IPPA would, for instance:

* Criminalize "attempting" to infringe copyright. Federal law currently punishes not-for-profit copyright infringement with between 1 and 10 years in prison, but there has to be actual infringement that takes place. The IPPA would eliminate that requirement. (The Justice Department's summary of the legislation says: "It is a general tenet of the criminal law that those who attempt to commit a crime but do not complete it are as morally culpable as those who succeed in doing so.")

* Create a new crime of life imprisonment for using pirated software. Anyone using counterfeit products who "recklessly causes or attempts to cause death" can be imprisoned for life. During a conference call, Justice Department officials gave the example of a hospital using pirated software instead of paying for it.

* Permit more wiretaps for piracy investigations. Wiretaps would be authorized for investigations of Americans who are "attempting" to infringe copyrights.

* Allow computers to be seized more readily. Specifically, property such as a PC "intended to be used in any manner" to commit a copyright crime would be subject to forfeiture, including civil asset forfeiture. Civil asset forfeiture has become popular among police agencies in drug cases as a way to gain additional revenue, and it is problematic and controversial.

* Increase penalties for violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's anticircumvention regulations. Criminal violations are currently punished by jail times of up to 10 years and fines of up to $1 million. The IPPA would add forfeiture penalties.

* Add penalties for "intended" copyright crimes. Certain copyright crimes currently require someone to commit the "distribution, including by electronic means, during any 180-day period of at least 10 copies" valued at more than $2,500. The IPPA would insert a new prohibition: actions that were "intended to consist of" distribution.

* Require Homeland Security to alert the Recording Industry Association of America. That would happen when CDs with "unauthorized fixations of the sounds, or sounds and images, of a live musical performance" are attempted to be imported. Neither the Motion Picture Association of America nor the Business Software Alliance (nor any other copyright holder, such as photographers, playwrights or news organizations, for that matter) would qualify for this kind of special treatment.

A representative of the Motion Picture Association of America told us: "We appreciate the department's commitment to intellectual-property protection and look forward to working with both the department and Congress as the process moves ahead."

What's still unclear is the kind of reception this legislation might encounter on Capitol Hill. Gonzales may not be terribly popular, but Democrats do tend to be more closely aligned with Hollywood and the recording industry than is the GOP. (A few years ago, Republicans even savaged fellow conservatives for allying themselves too closely with copyright holders.)

On behalf of Rep. Howard Berman, the California Democrat who heads the House Judiciary subcommittee that focuses on intellectual property, a representative said the congressman is reviewing proposals from the attorney general and others. The aide said the Hollywood politician plans to introduce his own intellectual-property enforcement bill later this year but that his office is not prepared to discuss any details yet.

One key Republican was less guarded. "We are reviewing (the attorney general's) proposal. Any plan to stop IP theft will benefit the economy and the American worker," said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the top Republican on the House Judiciary committee. "I applaud the attorney general for recognizing the need to protect intellectual property."

Still, it's too early to tell what might happen. A similar copyright bill that Smith, the RIAA and the Software and Information Industry Association enthusiastically supported last April never went anywhere.

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Department of Precrime, anyone?

Perhaps in the not-too-distant future, the black-suited SWAT team will be rappelling through your skylight, not because some psychic precogs could tell you were about to kill your wife, but because you launched a Blu-Ray copying tool and were "about" to make an illegal copy of "Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby."

I was really hoping more for a future in which the black-suited SWAT team would crash through your ceiling if you were about to make the mistake of WATCHING "Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby." Perhaps instead of arresting you, they'd simply seize the offending disc and replace it with a film by Kurosawa or Bergman. "There you go," they'd say, handing you an HD disc of "Wild Strawberries." "We're going to let you off with a warning this time. Get yourself into a rehab program, and for God's sake, stop watching this Will Farrell stuff."

Thank you, Officer... thank you...
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Blimey I'm getting confused by all this analogy malarkey.....]]>May 24th 2007 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/May 24th 2007 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/May 24th 2007 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/
Well we've already started, and no, we didn't ask for your permission.]]>May 24th 2007 12:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/
I think the "piracy" problem would seriously decrease if they started selling "License to watch [Your Movie Here] on an authorized device" than selling [Movie]. ]]>May 24th 2007 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/
Seriously? MP3s are industry standard, playable on every device made for music playback for the past 10 years!

What's happening is that they want to take us AWAY from that point, rather than embracing what already exists.]]>May 24th 2007 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/
Imagine their role just went from speed limit signs...to a speed limiter you can unplug as easy as a fuse. I think I'd unplug the damned thing, wouldn't you? The next generation would get used to the idea, and next thing you know you're getting auto-fined for profanity!]]>May 24th 2007 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/
Why not leave DRM out of the picture, and keep rereleasing movies in better formats? Bueller?]]>May 24th 2007 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/May 24th 2007 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/May 24th 2007 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/Go figure...]]>May 24th 2007 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/
Hahahahaha dumbasses.]]>May 24th 2007 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/
So DRM just screws over ordinary consumers who will buy less content because of all this associated hassle factor.

Personally, I make it a practice of ripping EVERYTHING I buy - DVDs, CDs, stuff I download on iTunes. Non-DRM content on a hard drive is just so much easier to deal with over the long term. It isn't tied to any particular device that might fail or be replaced in the future, it can be dropped into whatever device you travel with, and I don't have to worry about losing or damaging the discs. I've bought the same CD twice for the last time, thank you very much.


I don't sell the content, I don't share it with my friends, I don't make it available using BitTorrent. Hollywood can write whatever restrictive license it wants to, but that's always going to be fair use. All I want is to be left alone and not treated like a criminal.

Look at the Apple-EMI model - charge more for music that has a feature people care about - no DRM hassles. At least some people are starting to get the message that DRM actually reduces the value of content for most users. ]]>May 24th 2007 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/
I mean, the other guy says you don't OWN the content, you just have a LICENSE to watch it; the copyright holder OWNS it.

SO it's mandatory that the copyright holder GIVE you another CD right? I mean, you should get your money back plus damages if they don't uphold their end of the license (contract) right?

It's funny that RIAA and MPAA can ignore their end of the contract/license as well as fair use and simultaneously demand prison terms for people who THINK about pirating something.]]>May 24th 2007 4:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/Some software companies will send you a new disc if you send them a damaged one. It would be nice to see that model extended, but I am sure the arguement there would be that you are responsible for the product (i.e., the physical disc), which is independent from the license. I can't think of anything off of the top of my head that would get replaced for free if you damaged it.]]>May 24th 2007 4:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/
A digital file from apple can.. OH yeah because I can reburn it.. several times. my new emi apple songs can. because I can back them up. my copy of spiderman 3 can because I backed it up.

If the license agreement is different from the physical media. Then when my physical media gets damaged charge me for a replacement of the media and not another license agreement. Wait... that'd be like lost money. OH and if I want to use it as a ring tone then you don't need to charge me again because I'm already licensed for it and there's no physical media. And if I want to put it on my ipod and watch it on a plane. Then don't charge me for it because I own a license to it and there's no media. Your arguments are weak and unfounded in any logical sense. I can't wait till DRM pushes someone over the edge and they start killin people at all the labels as they leave work. Companies that have pushed consumers to far always get a reality check in the end.]]>May 25th 2007 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/24/aacs-managed-copy-we-got-yer-managed-copy-right-ere/May 24th 2007 5:28PM