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| Thread ID: 60125 | 2005-07-23 08:40:00 | Editing a Commercial DVD movie | John W (523) | Press F1 |
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| 374604 | 2005-07-23 23:55:00 | Hear Ye: Without Predjudice! (a US necessary antilitigational statement) The ASCAP and BMI people are all a-twitter with the encryption stuff right now, as they are fighting against the loss of revenues from cd's and music copyrights and whatever . . . but the movie studios are fighting a little different game . Actually, as is being monetarily ($) shown to the music people, file sharing and unencryption (Ne: CRACKS and CRACKERS) is to their benefit as it brings a lot of contact with their music to people who would not normally hear it . Since the new "doors" have been opened, it seems to have staunched the flow of negative revenues (whatever that means . . . . gobbledegook really! . . . . it just means they saw a dip in profits, but never into the minus area) and there seems to be a turn-around and actual music sales have had a new spike in sales that are not seasonally correctable . Anyway, the encoding is just part of the vid fight . Sidebar here: There's an unofficial limit imposition to gmail now that allows only files less than 1 gig in length to be uploaded that seems to have just "happened" somehow . Here's the catch: The dvd's plainly say you can use the contents as you see fit as long as you are in the audience, do not charge admission, and as a recent court case went, you cannot ask people to put into the kitty for a beer or candy run, as that is making a profit on the showing of the licensed product and causing monies to exchange hands . So . . . if you send a movie to another 'puter . . . it looks like you have to be on the receiving end to actually view it with just good but cashless friends or relatives or you are breaking the "spirit of the law" . About encryption, as it stands, and it doesn't seem to stand very well at all, it appears to be open season on everyone . . the users, the studios and the artists' unions . Everyone is slashing the air and not getting any place at all . It's time the studios got wind of the events in the MP3 arena and saw some daylight between the purchasers of dvds and their legal department . If given a little air and good sense, this will be worked out . It's a royalties thing . This was all hammered out in the good ol' VHS v . BETA trials a long time ago, but they seem to have convenient memories . . . . . . . . . . . . . Until there is a clear definition of law about the encryption, methinks the door is open and useable . Remembering we here live in "Lawyer-Land", we await the rumblings of the (either) individual State Superior Courts, or the US Supreme Court, and even that is subject to the Hollywood movers and shakers . There seems not to have been made a law that goes against Hollywood that has been left standing and those that are FOR the Hollywoodians, gets stearnly enforced . My opinions are just that: OPINIONS and do not necessarily reflect the past/current/future laws of New Zealand, to which I am not privy . My opinions are without predjudice . (That disclaimer is for all the lawyers out there . ) |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 374605 | 2005-07-24 02:24:00 | what are you wanting to remove ? trailers, soundtracks e.t.c | phylip (1886) | ||
| 374606 | 2005-07-24 05:23:00 | what are you wanting to remove ? trailers, soundtracks e.t.c edit out parts that he is not that interested in, but i think we should not go any further with this thread due to the information that was in Jen's post. |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 374607 | 2005-07-24 05:28:00 | Im with Prescott - Unless somebody has something incredibly constructive to add that is not related to circumvention of protection etc. Im not in the mood to start locking threads :( |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 374608 | 2005-07-24 06:19:00 | Since nobody is willing to tell you how..I will point you to this site (www.videohelp.com) , it has given me great help in the past | plod (107) | ||
| 374609 | 2005-07-24 06:27:00 | but plod, it is illegal to do this though :( | Prescott (11) | ||
| 374610 | 2005-07-24 07:20:00 | but plod, it is illegal to do this though :( So, it's only polite if you can't or won't help somebody to point them in the right direction....doing that is not illegal..... As I see Prescott, you have a mp3 player, which I hope you haven't transfered any of your cd's over onto it as that would also be illegal |
plod (107) | ||
| 374611 | 2005-07-24 09:04:00 | fair enough, i get where your coming from :cool: that brings up another point. so many people have ipods in new zealand, why isnt this targeted? and yet retailers keep on selling them when they know people are going to put their cd's on the ipod. :illogical |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 374612 | 2005-07-24 10:50:00 | Well... I make recordings of my own (not music) and I could be using those?! | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 374613 | 2005-07-24 11:16:00 | Well... I make recordings of my own (not music) and I could be using those?! Please send copy of Friday night's recording of the conversation at your dinner table ;) (Is there still any point to this thread? Why not just lock it) |
techie (7177) | ||
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