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Posted by Derek Janssen on 12/07/06 21:32
FrozenNorth wrote:
> Rich Clark tossed the following at the wall, and it stuck:
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>>Derek Janssen wrote:
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>>[stuff]
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>>All you people are proving is that you can't read for content.
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>>I never said anything about whether ripping DVDs is legal or not.
>>
>>I only said that Walmart's service is not evidence of ripping being
>>illegal, or of anything but their desire to make a profit offering a
>>service.
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>>One might make a case that it's evidence that DVD ripping is difficult
>>and complicated enough that people who shop at Walmart will pay to have
>>somebody else do it. The legality of it is not even an issue in this
>>context. There's nothing implicit or explicit in the offer that says
>>"it's illegal for you to do it yourself, so let us do it for you." The
>>offer is simply "Let us do it for you."
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> The OP posted $2 per disc, I know that there is no way that I could rip and
> then burn a DVD fast enough at $2 per that I could make any money using a
> normal computer with a good burner, or rip and upload to an iPod.
>
> Obviously they must have invested in some more specialized equipment so that
> this is feasible to do at this cost, and turn a profit, even if the
> operator is only paid minimum Wally World wages.
....Uh, THAT would be illegal. Which's why I'm holding out suspicions
about the current service.
What WM is planning is probably something through the website--But even
though there's security all over, and a charge for each single device up
to two (Apple gives you a five-device license for one download), $2 is
just a *little* too darn cheap to be true. :/
DO they plan to just "rip the disk the minute it comes in the store", as
we're all fantasizing they are, or have they contracted deals with the
studio that require you to purchase the disk first, with codes, 'n such?
Studios are just a little too tight-fisted for the plan as it is now
(and in primitive fear and awe of the Downloading Volcano God Whose Name
Is Destruction)...And even Apple's service requires buying the entire
file for $10, since no "rental plan" was technically possible.
Derek Janssen
ejanss@comcast.net
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