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Common sense is not dead, it simply moved to Brazil

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As you can see, this is just a proposal concerning copyright law.



http://prorevnews.blogspot.com/2010/07/ ... se-on.html
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Yeah, I hope BRIC gets it together and stands up against ACTA.
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Michael Geist, a Canadian law professor who highlighted the new proposal, sums it up as a properly balanced approach that doesn't buy into the "more is better" approach to copyright protections. "In other words, the Brazilian proposals recognizes what the Supreme Court of Canada stated several years ago," he writes, "over-protection is just as harmful as under-protection."
So if the Supreme Court recognizes it why doesn't the Canadian Government?

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/1006 ... ight_act_7

Basically if this law gets through I could be fined because I broke the region code on two DVD's we received as birthday presents from our relatives in New Zealand. Both were fully and legitimately purchased in their country of origin, and were sent to us through leigtamet means. And yet we could get fined for actually expecting to play them.

Good luck to Brazil, someone has to see sense...
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Yeah, breaking the DRM is not good for your health. You could just purchase a multi-region dvd player tho.

Apparently they don't have problems with you spending MORE money.</sarcasm>
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True, but after the Region is cracked I can play the DVD from VLC. Thus there is more value in cracking it rather than buying a multi-region dvd player, which is why traditional copyright does not work. People will pay money if they get more value from purchasing the product rather than using it through other means. Thus the way to get people to buy your product is to make it have more value, rather than imposing draconian copyright control. It is called being competitive. I thought that is what copyright was meant to support?
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Nah, it's always been about maintaining a temporary monopoly on a work. Calling it anything else is just fuel for lawyers to extend that monopoly into perpetuity.
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& the Kiwi's chime in

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Looks like the Kiwi's are disposing of software-patents, it'd be nice if this sort of thing turns into a trend.
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Yay, more reason to be proud of my New Zealand citizenship (by descent). Other than a few minor qualms, such as the fact they banned Postal 2 from sale, it is a much saner place.
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Looks like we've a little more breathing room in the U.S. (at least where iPhones and DVDs are concerned.)

Gizmodo has a nice rundown.
http://gizmodo.com/5596677/drm-buster-f ... ns-for-you
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You can rip your own DVDs, and nobody will stop you.
So, if I am reading this right, what I did with the New Zealand DVD's would be legal in the United States but may no longer be acceptable in Canada?

Take pride, you have finally made us look really bad. :wink:
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Ah, don't take it so bad. We still can't rip the entire DVD *legally*, but you can now break the DRM to allow you to rip a short "fair use" clip.

I'm happy to read that they have the 3 year revision clause in there.
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Apperntly, the Vatican has even weighed in on the subject: Vatican to rich countries: stop "excessive zeal" for IP rights (Ars Technica)
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Vaguely related, Apple is being sued for breaking the GPL by including DRM in the versions of VLC included in the App Store:

http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2010/10/30/vl ... app-store/

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