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Should We Keep Letting the MPAA Fib

June 15, 2008 – 9:59 pm

The MPAA is always going on about how they are losing tons of money in the theaters because of pirates. However a CNN article recently pointed out that
Since the first weekend of May, domestic grosses total $1.46 billion, up 4.6 percent from 2007’s, according to Media By Numbers. Factoring in higher ticket prices, actual movie [...]

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Boycott Regal Cinemas

August 23, 2007 – 7:58 am

A little while back a 19 year old woman in Virginia was arrested for filming 20 seconds of Transformers with a digital camera (a Canon Powershot, not a video camera). The 20 second clip was for her 13 year old brother in order to get him excited about the movie.
Was that a little dumb? Yes.
But [...]

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Ten Things I Hate About Comandments

June 22, 2007 – 10:06 am

Fair use makes great derivative works like this legal. Of course Viacom still had it taken down, even though they legally don’t own it. But now it is back, take a look.

This is just one of the many reasons fair use needs to be protected. The DVD-CCA (the folks is charge of DVD licensing) [...]

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HD DVD Can Kiss DRM Goodbye

February 21, 2007 – 3:09 pm

Well it’s official now HD DVD can be made clean. It was already defeated a while ago by some hacker in Canada named “Muslix64,” but now there is commercial software available that will allow folks to backup their HD DVD’s and make them playable on hardware that isn’t DRM-friendly. SlySoft has put out [...]

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