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Posted by jayembee on 10/03/05 17:20
Impmon <impmon@digi.mon> wrote:
> "Alpha" <none@none.net> wrote:
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>> By 2008 everything will shut down gradually on recording.
>>
>> You keep insisting that 'something' will make it possible. Only for
>> lawbreakers.
>
> There's another way: class action lawsuit. I believe the old ruling
> that allowed time shifting when lawsuit was filed against VCR by big
> name studios some 20 years ago. The right to record anything for
> later viewing remained and I'm sure it still remains today.
I'm not convinced that the Betamax Law will be an obstacle. What
the Betamax ruling really came down to was that Sony wasn't liable
for any lost revenue for the studios because consumers used a
Betamax to record something for time shifting.
It doesn't, however, require broadcasters to transmit a signal that
is recordable. Embedding broadcast flags into a TV signal isn't any
more a violation of the Betamax law than HBO scrambling their
downlink signals.
-- jayembee
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