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Posted by Marriage Hole SODDI on 12/07/06 22:11
"Modemac" <modemac@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1165420329.284772.282140@j44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Wal-Mart's plan for legal movie downloads: buy a DVD, then pay some
> more to "legally" download it to your iPod:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/29/technology/29bitt.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
>
> Let's see if I understand this right: you pay for a DVD, and *then* you
> pay a fee of $1.97 or something to download that DVD to your iPod.
> This effectively means that you're accepting the line that ripping a
> DVD that you purchased, to play on your own iPod, is illegal.
> Evidently the Sony-Betamax decision doesn't cover copying movies to an
> iPod.
>
> Gosh darn those awful Internet movie pirates!
Anyone who "watches" a film on an iPod should be charged ten times that,
just on general aesthetic principles.
I can't wait til one of those assholes informs me that they "watched" "2001"
on their iPod and "didn't think it was the great film everyone said it was".
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