'No iPod Movie Rips' says Library of Congress
According to MacWorld UK, the Copyright Office of the US Library of Congress has rejected a petition which requested that owners of iPods and other portable media players be allowed to rip the CDs and DVDs they own to their own playback devices. You'd imagine, wouldn't you, that you should be allowed to transfer material you own so long as you make sure that multiple copies would never be played simultaneously. But no. The RIAA strenuously disagrees. Apparently space-shifting and format-shifting do not count as non-infringing uses.
You can read the Electronic Freedom Foundation's reply to the ruling here.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Matthew said 2:16PM on 11-26-2006
And a hearty and resounding "F U we'll do what we want" is heard througout the land as the free people in every country speak as one.
Yep, they can stick this one.
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Jon said 2:22PM on 11-26-2006
Oh well, this means more money to Apple and less to Walmart, which can only be good thing.
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Chaz said 2:26PM on 11-26-2006
So, does that mean it's illegal to rip music? Movies were already shady, so I'm not even going to ask about that in the first place.
I'm not saying I don't do either, but I'm curious as to what this means. Library of Congress has been stating a lot of things lately. One I remember from recently is the abandonware decision: It's legal as long as support is dead and they're not selling it anymore.
Are they like the judicial branch or something, so whatever they is like a court decision, or does the real Congress still have to make the laws to get ratified?
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Paul Carroll said 2:57PM on 11-26-2006
You have to be fucking kidding me. I am not re-buying my music on a DRM'd to shit format that will be completely worthless in a few years.
The RIAA can suck it.
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coorspate said 3:54PM on 11-26-2006
YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!! ......FU**TARDS!!!!!!
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Mike Reinmiller said 4:25PM on 11-26-2006
This will all be laughed at in 20 years!!!
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Nitewing 98 said 4:30PM on 11-26-2006
This just in: King George III decides that the colonies cannot declare independence, nor may they throw shipments of tea into the harbor.
There's enough momentum behind the digital media "fad" that the RIAA and MPAA will never get it stopped. It's interesting, if not a bit fun, though, to watch them try. I never tire of watching them froth at the mouth and spaz out as we continue to do exactly the opposite of their wishes...
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matt said 4:40PM on 11-26-2006
I'm pretty sure this makes at least 70% of Americans criminals...
fu*king ridiculous
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Jon said 4:43PM on 11-26-2006
"This will all be laughed at in 20 years!!!"
I doubt it, as the RIAA will probably be controlling our minds by then...
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Rae said 5:01PM on 11-26-2006
"So it's just about movies, not music."
Yep.
ATTN: TUAW - Stop making things up. Thx.
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Rich Schmidt said 5:35PM on 11-26-2006
The MacWorldUK article doesn't say anything about CD's. Just DVD's. It's about breaking the CSS encryption.
So it's just about movies, not music.
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HoobesDoo said 5:41PM on 11-26-2006
Until people stop buying CDs and DVDs to show the industry that this is getting ridiculous, nothing is going to change. It's time people start boycotting the BS that's being pushed on them. Come on, you buy something and you have no rights to do with it what you want? What has happened to the days where we could freely make compilations of our albums and give a tape to our friends? Let's stop being manipulated in this insane matter. The media also has the power to help instead of just making it sound sensationalist.
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Jon said 6:16PM on 11-26-2006
The EFF link (the first EFF link) mentions CDs and DVDs.
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Matt T. said 6:24PM on 11-26-2006
Don'y you love corrupt goverment that seem to listen to a multi-billion dollar industry.
I'll do what I please with my DVDs. When I buy a DVD, I buy the content on the disc for my personal use, which could be putting it to my Ipod.
Goverment FTL
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Debbie said 6:31PM on 11-26-2006
Ridiculous!
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Stephen Antonucci said 7:48PM on 11-26-2006
I think you have to realize they are simply upholding the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) which disallows you to break copy protection and reverse engineer copy protection schemes. This has little to do with "fair use" and its established laws. This is why the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is such a horrible law. Until someone with deep pockets and a large amount of lawyers can take on this horrible law and win stating fair use laws or other reasons this will always be the case. The Copyright Office can not simply ignore the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) as it is the law of the land, unfortunately!
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Jeffbbs said 9:47PM on 11-26-2006
what nonsense...how sad.
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Chris D. said 2:24AM on 11-27-2006
...so i guess iPod owners = terrorists?
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NWJR said 8:22AM on 11-29-2006
Every time you Rip a DVD, the terrorists win.
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