They are making this decision just as the VCR is going the way of the Dictaphone. However, I think that the precedent will apply to TiVo and subsequent technologies.
I’m not going to touch that we’re ruling on VCRs after they’ve stopped being in regular use.
How !@#$ing idiotic. It was on my TV for free an hour ago while I was eating dinner, but now I should be prevented from watching it because it’s no longer free?
Furthermore, screw you (proverbial). If it enters my home and I choose to make a copy of it, piss on it, use it to scrub plates, etc. ... as long as I don’t damage it or use it in a way which is illegal no one has any right to tell me what I can or can’t do with it.
Ahh, the 80’s when America was America. Still remember my uncle back when telling me to shut up as he was waiting for “Cherry Pie” by Warrant to come on the radio so he could press record on his recorder.
This thing going on today with web site's blanking out in protest is already settled back in the 1980's with VCR's. Just as a practical matter, once China gets a CD of Lady GaGa and rips to to a web site, how on earth will you stop it from going out? Hollywood wants Google and Microsoft to be their police for free. It would be an almost impossible job and makes web servers and search engine's liable if something screws up. What no one seems to be thinking about is the gubmint will decide what is illegal and what isn't. It pretty much guarantee's the Tea Party will be evil and the OWS will be poor mistreated content providers that need the Tea Party arrested and dismantled to save freedom in America.
If you just look back a few months at YouTube, almost every conservative clip was banned because they may have used a song or film image that Hollywood wanted royalties for. Of course, Obama girl could use any image she wanted to push Obama and the Dems.
The most important film clip in the last 5 years was one called "Burning Down The House" with the subject being Freddie and Fannie loaning money to people that couldn't afford the loan. It had CSPAN clips of Dems fighting the Repubs when The Bush administration tried to reign in GSA's from going broke. They were called racists because the Fannie CEO was a black man named Frank Raines. When things got pretty bad, around a million views, they pulled the clip saying the background music wasn't compensated for. He changed the music, put it back up and they pulled it again. If this law gets serious, the maker of this YouTube clip could get the full weight of the Obama administration on his back.
VCR? Oh yeah, I used to have one of those, back in the 20th century.
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