Tag Archives: mpaa

Should We Keep Letting the MPAA Fib

June 15, 2008 – 9:59 pm

And an Ars Technica article points out that US box office doing its biggest year of business ever in 2007, growing 5.4 percent over 2006 and bringing in $9.63 billionSo the question is, how much longer are we going to let the MPAA concoct a “truth” that allows them to push new crappy laws that erode our freedoms?

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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). Regal Cinemas would like this woman’s life ruined over 20 seconds of a movie on a digital camera.

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Ten Things I Hate About Comandments

June 22, 2007 – 10:06 am

The DVD-CCA (the folks is charge of DVD licensing) are trying to make it illegal to copy a DVD in anyway, in fact they don’t even want people to playing a DVD movie without the DVD in the drive.

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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.

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