So the Copyright Office is currently in the middle reviewing
proposed exceptions to the DMCA, and one of the proposals on the table would allow teachers and students to rip DVDs and edit them for use in the classroom. Open and shut, right? Not if you're the MPAA and
gearing up to litigate the legality of ripping -- it's trying to convince the rulemaking committee that
videotaping a flatscreen is an acceptable alternative. Seriously. It's hard to say if we've ever seen an organization make a more tone-deaf, flailing argument than this.
Take a good look, kids. This is what an industry looks like right before it dies. Video after the break.
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BoingBoing]
posted May 7th 2009 2:46PM
Oh so its ok to video tape the movie theater screen too? Excellent
Seriously?!?!?! So camcording a tv screen is ok, but camcording at the theaters which is technically the same thing isn't?
Nothing says irony like MPAA explaining why it's bad to rip DVD's by playing a clip using VLC, a piece of software, they want to be illegal for a couple of hundreds of reasons, including its ability to rip DVD's, ignore region coding, etc, etc.
Wow, the MPAA is actually good for something adter all! Who would have thunk it!
RT
www.privacy-web.net.tc
This is so asinine. The Encrypt the DVD so you are a felon under the DMCA if you RIP it. The get Macrovision into the DMCA so you are a felon if you bypass that protection and record it to a VCR or DVD-R. But you can now you spend 2 hours setting up and $300+ on additional equipment so you can do something that you can do in 5 minutes on any laptop.
But wait theres more: The MPAA has been lobbying for years to close the “Analog Hole”. So once they do finally bribe enough politicians they get an addendum added to the DMCA that require all camcorders to shutdown when they get a copyright watermark.
Next years video form MPAA the proper use of pause and tracing paper (it's just as good as a Rip).
Additional things not said. In addition to taping a screen, you must use Betamax ONLY. The camera cannot have any image stabilization. The person holding the camera must have a nervous tremor and a bad cold.
Fine...then the MPAA needs to supply every teacher in America with a Camcorder and a flat-panel tv...idhots
Just hold up an UN-burned DVD, and ask if they have a price-equitable
solution for copying shows. Price = compatible teachers price.
Make available $0 cost recorders and $0 cost media
for teachers, use whatever media the MPAA like to salve
their tortured mentalities, and legislate it to make it
available to students and teachers, IN SCHOOL, for
NOTHING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Will somebody PLEASE think about the children???
Fail
@Ryan LN
No doubt! This is off the subject quite a bit, but I just received my poxy vote from my investment firm. According to the proxy, the shareholders have put forth a motion to NOT allow the fund to invest in companies or organizations that directly profited from genocide or crimes agains humanity. The shocking part was that the board of the firm is AGAINST this becoming a bylaw.
We are doomed for sure!
I just realized that I'm watching a video on a screen, of a video capturing a video of a camera taping a screen showing a video.
Also, the MPAA is incredibly silly. And what a clip to show, they could've picked any DVD clip ever.
While we're at it we should also allow using a tape recorder to record music we download so we can put it on our ipods legally.
MPAA: Most Pretentious *Bleep*holes in America
This is depressing.
I'm gonna go rip some DVDs to make myself feel better.
This is not an industry just before it dies. They know there is an unending stream of simpletons breathlessly awaiting the next release of more drivel from the movie studios and willing to pay, collectively, millions of dollars to them. If you really don't like the MPAA actions, then skip the movies and DVD's, i.e. don't buy their products, because it is your money they are using to fund the lawyers making these arguments.
It's funny how he tries to make shooting video off a TV sound professional. Who knew you could 'start the recording, stop the recording, take out the DVD, put in the DVD, start again'...
Bwahahahahah!
Hurry somebody load this on a torrent site so the MPAA can sue themselves for copyright infringement!
Idiots!
(Do they not learn from every other technology that has come before!)
Riiiight. Every teacher has a wall-mounted HDTV, with an upconverting PS3, and high-quality camera equipment. American schools are THAT well funded.
Thank god they are doing this. Now we can actually have premium quality "rips" from movies that just went out on the cinema! I will ensure this gets teached in every school I know.
Okay.. let me try to figure this out.
If I rip a DVD, I'm a pirate.
If I film a movie in theater, I'm a pirate.
If I rip a DVD to show in class as a teacher or student, I'm a pirate.
If I record a TV to show in class as a teacher of student, I'm not a pirate.
Okay now let's use what they taught me at engineering school (Really high level estimate).
Price of a cam Recorder: 200$
Probability to pay price: 100%
Resulting evaluated price of option A: 200$
Price of a suitcase: 5000$ (using subpoena from RIAA).
Probability they catch me: 0.01%
Resulting evaluated price of option B: 5$
Option B wins!
Bob, you forgot:
If I come from Somalia, I'm a Pirate
What a joke!
why are they filming porn?
look in the picture, you can see her nipple
"Hello and welcome to Bootleg 101 presented by the Motion Picture Association of America." Like Bad Beaver commented, "Welcome to the '70s, dude."
Well great. After I just bought my $15 DVD, now I need to go get a $500 HD Camcorder and some proprietary software to reformat that HD video file just to take a clip. But I guess I can try to blame them if I get an 'F' for poor quality.
What a riot! The MPAA is floundering in it's own inadequacy.
"next, string an audio cable about knee high across the room to the camera and turn out the lights..."
MPAA = Epic Fail.
Anyone notice the guy used VLC to playback the movie? The interesting part about this is that videolan has been under attack by them for playback of encrypted dvds...
I'm starting to think 2010 is going to be the year All the Lawyers From the MPAA and RIAA Went Up Against the Wall.
Not that I would advocate that sort of vigilante activity, of course. It would be overkill. Like disconnecting one's internet connection because one is mere accused of something.
Lol, I think I've never seen so many "Highly Ranked" comments before.
You are all huge nerds. Cheap, thieving nerds. Just buy the damn movie if you want to have it.
Okay, now I got a better one. How bout you buy a 50 inch Plasma TV, buy the blu ray, record it with your shitty $2 webcam, edit with windows movie maker, record it with a videotape camera, rip it to back your computer, resize it to 120x160, put a watermark, put it in black and white and watch it on your 1080p projector?
www.engadget.com/media/2009/05/5-07-09mpaa.jpg
At first glance I thought that the woman standing there was showing a boob.
newsflash: MPAA tells people to use old technology to record copyrighted material!
on a side-note: MPAA is now dumber than a box of hair.
what's even funnier is that most school-age kids know how to copy all kinds of stuff, from music cds to dvd movies, directly to their computers, or they know how to download all kinds of stuff off of bittorrent.
oh and btw 18 is 3 times 6
which means it is 6+6+6
666
now I know who they really work for... :(
I would like to suggest doing that in a movie theatre instead. Much better quality. No, wait...
*shaking head in disbelief*
The MPAA says in the vid you can use direct audio, but that means they are in conflict with the RIAA, let's give them both some mustardgas and have them duke it out in some desert.
Why wouldn't they just play the dvd on a dvd player?
Next, they can teach people how to do better "Telesync" capture in the theaters! :)