01-11-2003, 02:45 AM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Bill Would Allow Copying of Music, Movies
All hail the DMCR! What's that you might ask? It's a new bill that might actually allow you to use the music and videos you paid for in whatever way you wish (as long as it's for personal use). But will this bill come to pass in the US? I have my doubts - I think the RIAA will gather their army of lawyers together and send them to Congress in a mad rush of paperwork and jabbber jowls. It will get ugly.
"The Digital Media Consumer Rights Acts, reintroduced Tuesday by Representative Rick Boucher, a Virginia Democrat, and three other lawmakers, would trump the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's anticircumvention provisions, allowing consumers to break copy controls in order to do such things as make personal copies of songs or movies from discs they already own. If the consumer's action has a substantial legitimate use, it falls under the fair use rights protected in the Boucher bill, instead of constituting a copyright violation, Boucher said."
(as a side note, I think I'm using Microsoft products too much lately - when I saw the title of that article, I thought "Bill" was referring to Bill Gates :lol: )
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01-11-2003, 02:49 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 784
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Re: Bill Would Allow Copying of Music, Movies
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
(as a side note, I think I'm using Microsoft products too much lately - when I saw the title of that article, I thought "Bill" was referring to Bill Gates :lol: )
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LOL!  Same here...
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01-11-2003, 02:52 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 41
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I hate to say it, but me too :roll:
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01-11-2003, 02:58 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 54
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Me three! I was expecting something about one of MS new media products! On a serious note, any thought to starting a grassroots email campaign in support of this? I have seen those before with a form letter in support of legislation, where you select your state and it is automatically routed to your Senators and Congressmen. I don't know how to do that, but I am sure some Thoughts reader (or moderator) must know.
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01-11-2003, 03:00 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 784
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That's pretty sad that we would even think that Bill Gates controls what music or movies we copy... :roll:
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01-11-2003, 03:07 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 406
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Me too. 
That bill certainly does sound nice; it's certainly refreshing after all of these other bills, especially the one that would actually put a chip in all consumer hardware to prevent copying...
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01-11-2003, 03:10 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Mar 2006
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LOL...me too! I thought it was bill gates hehe....
Anyway, I fully support this Bill!
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01-11-2003, 03:15 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 60
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(as a side note, I think I'm using Microsoft products too much lately - when I saw the title of that article, I thought
(as a side note, I think I'm using Microsoft products too much lately - when I saw the title of that article, I thought "Bill" was referring to Bill Gates )
Wow, this getting scary....me too 8O
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01-11-2003, 03:19 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 437
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Re: Bill Would Allow Copying of Music, Movies
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
I think the RIAA will gather their army of lawyers together and send them to Congress in a mad rush of paperwork and jabbber jowls. It will get ugly.
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That means we need to get together an army of supporters for this bill to outnumber their army of lawyers. Who knows, we just might make democracy work this time!
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01-11-2003, 03:25 AM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 1,023
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Me as well with Bill.  ops: Wishful thinking someone that powerful on the side of the consumer perhaps?
Ack... post 666 just has to be about Bill. >_< (All the old Bill = evil stuff)
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