Posted by Jeff Rife on 11/18/05 18:40

Alpha (none@none.net) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
> > Try reading 17 USC 106-115 before you post. Then, too, 17 USC 1002
> > implies
> > that digital copying of audio is just fine if the SCMS doesn't disallow
> > it.
>
> Implies is right....that is not how studios interpret it.

It doesn't matter how studios interpet the law. What matters is that when
a system that is designed to stop copying isn't applied (because the media
doesn't have the "enable" bit set), then de facto consent to copy is being
given. Many, many digital recordings don't have this bit set on the media.

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