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Re: Blockbuster vs. Netflix

Posted by Citizen Bob on 12/06/06 17:22

On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:53:33 -0500, Derek Janssen
<ejanss@nospam.comcast.net> wrote:

>Now here's the tricky part: *WATCHING* THE DAMN THINGS!!!

That is not tricky at all. As I said, my wife and I are retired so we
have lots of free time on our hands. We spend a significant part of
that free time watching some form of video entertainment, both DVD
rentals and DVDR recordings of TV shows.

Our mail typically comes around mid afternoon, sometimes as late as
5:00 but usually around 3:30-4:00. One DVD is for her only, one is for
me only and one we watch together. We can watch half of that in the
afternoon and evening and the other half the next day sometime. Then
the discs go into the mailbox for pickup.

>As opposed to doing something else federally illegal

What do you mean by "federally illegal". The Fair Use doctrine extends
to DVDs. That is the opinion of the courts. I realize that the
entertainment industry has challenged that and some courts have ruled
in their favor, but not all courts agree with DRM.

Until the matter is resolved in higher courts and Congress passes a
definitive law regarding Fair Use, the matter is open.

Even if I did copy them I would not sell them. Most of my DVD copying
is on re-writable media so I do not keep the copies past watching them
one, which is exactly what I paid for.

Would you rather I got the torrents and not pay anything at all? The
reason I don't do that is because it's more convenient to get the real
thing especially because it has subtitles. Torrents do not have
subtitles and my wife and I use subtitles.

>> It is possible to watch 3 DVDs in the 24 hours between arrival and
>> return, so you do not have to copy them.

>Oh, what a relief!...I don't have to copy them!
>What burden off my shoulders! Oh, happy, happy day! :-D

Troll.


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ends, there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or
alter the legislative, when they find the legislative act contrary to
the trust reposed in them....And thus the community perpetually retains
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any body, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish
or so wicked as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and
properties of the subject."
--John Locke

 

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