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Posted by Alpha on 11/24/05 22:10
"Jeff Rife" <wevsr@nabs.net> wrote in message
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> unclejr (watsona@kenyon.edu) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
>> Why would the studios EVER agree to ANY type of copying (fair-use or
>> otherwise)?
>
> Because if you support copying within the system, you can control it much
> more tightly. If there is no copying allowed (like DVDs), then somebody
> writes a program that breaks it and copies end up everywhere. In
> addition,
> with copying built in, anybody that does write such a program to do more
> than what is built in has a lot harder time arguing that their software is
> for "fair use", if such uses are already built in.
>
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> Jeff Rife |
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The operative point is, however, that the so-called managed copying allows
the manufacturer to charge you for each copy...or even each use if they want
to.
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