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Don Marti | 27 Jul 23:47

One more thing on DRM...

From the political news files:
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/26/michael-savage-lawsuit-ag_n_115103.html

  "In her ruling Friday, U.S. District Judge Susan
  Illston said people who listen to a public broadcast
  are entitled to use excerpts for purposes of comment
  and criticism."

Of course, if the comment and criticism had used a
circumvented copy of a DRM-restricted work, no such
exception applies.

Anyone got an example of a straight-up _political
speaker_ who's using a DRM-restricted format, and
a comment on or criticism of that speaker? 

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Ruben Safir | 2 Oct 06:25

Re: One more thing on DRM...

On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 02:49:36PM -0700, Don Marti wrote:
> >From the political news files:
>   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/26/michael-savage-lawsuit-ag_n_115103.html
> 
>   "In her ruling Friday, U.S. District Judge Susan
>   Illston said people who listen to a public broadcast
>   are entitled to use excerpts for purposes of comment
>   and criticism."
> 
> Of course, if the comment and criticism had used a
> circumvented copy of a DRM-restricted work, no such
> exception applies.
> 
> Anyone got an example of a straight-up _political
> speaker_ who's using a DRM-restricted format, and
> a comment on or criticism of that speaker? 

This Judge is a crackpot and these people don't yet understand the 
monster they're creating.

But what is more interesting, IMO, is the Real case against the MPAA
with their new ripping software, which in itself seems like a Free
Software nightmare.

Should I cite a news source?

Ruben
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Ruben Safir | 7 Oct 19:47

Re: One more thing on DRM...

Ruben Safir wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 02:49:36PM -0700, Don Marti wrote:
>   
>> >From the political news files:
>>   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/26/michael-savage-lawsuit-ag_n_115103.html
>>
>>   "In her ruling Friday, U.S. District Judge Susan
>>   Illston said people who listen to a public broadcast
>>   are entitled to use excerpts for purposes of comment
>>   and criticism."
>>
>> Of course, if the comment and criticism had used a
>> circumvented copy of a DRM-restricted work, no such
>> exception applies.
>>
>> Anyone got an example of a straight-up _political
>> speaker_ who's using a DRM-restricted format, and
>> a comment on or criticism of that speaker? 
>>     
>
> This Judge is a crackpot and these people don't yet understand the 
> monster they're creating.
>
> But what is more interesting, IMO, is the Real case against the MPAA
> with their new ripping software, which in itself seems like a Free
> Software nightmare.
>
>
> Should I cite a news source?
>
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