Damion Chaplin
08-04-2006, 07:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://consumerist.com/consumer/top/circuit-city-flouts-the-dmca-for-a-tenner-192049.php' target='_blank'>http://consumerist.com/consumer/top/circuit-city-flouts-the-dmca-for-a-tenner-192049.php</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Well, well, well! Look who's violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act! For only a couple of fins, Circuit City will take your DVD and an iPod and flagrantly breach copyright at your behest. How does this violate the DMCA? Well, according to the act, any attempts to work around an encryption scheme is prohibited. Every DVD comes encrypted. Ergo, Circuit City's breaking the law for customers, thousands of times per day. Note the caveat: "Transfer must be from an original copy of your DVD collection." We'll swat aside the of/from confusion to point out how gleefully imprecise a criterion that is. Time to load up your trunk with a buddy's DVD collection and head on down to Circuit City. "Just what I needed!""</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/CCDVDtransfer.jpg" /> <br /><br />Heh. Just what I needed: a little Friday levity. I, of course, have been breaking the DMCA in this fashion ever since they invented the damned thing. It straight up violates my fair use rights, which were established long before the DMCA. I should be able to do whatever I want with the movie I paid hard-earned money for, even to the point of having Circuit City do my transferring. And you know when giant B&Ms start ignoring it, it must be absurd. :wink: