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Hollywood suit against RealDVD meant to stifle innovation, says EFF

article published on 11 October, 2008

According to the EFF, the recent Hollywood suit against RealDVD is nothing more than a smokescreen aimed not at piracy but instead at stifling innovation. "It has nothing to do with piracy and everything to do with controlling innovation," said Fred von Lohmann, EFF's senior attorney. The suit contends that RealNetwork's RealDVD software is in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright ... [ read the full article ]

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13thHouR

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15. October 2008 @ 04:10

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Originally posted by raceman94:
Hollywood gone wild!

well money grabbing scum bags, if double dipping wasn't enough you know. They want to control every aspect including the eventual move to rent only titles and blu-ray is the tool that will allow them to do this with it's phone home authorise disc system they could lock a disc to a single machine, make it playable X amount of times or set start and finish dates.

Does this sound anything like Sony's DRM SecuROM to you? the ability is there lets hope they never implement it.

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15. October 2008 @ 06:00

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duh...those movie companies are not just making cheap movie dvds for your personal pleasure...lol..what you are advocating with fair use is movie dvd piracy...the ability to swap, pirate unpaid for dvds with friends etc..we all know that!....dont we!...what the issue really is...what is a fair price to pay for movie dvds that reimburse movie companies..the source of our viewing pleasure...to keep making movies...without making us feel like we are not paying exorbitant dollars for their product...otherwise we kill the goose that lays the golden egg...all you people on here sound like you are being hard done by ...by the movie companies! LOL

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15. October 2008 @ 10:23

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Originally posted by BLAHHHHH:
duh...those movie companies are not just making cheap movie dvds for your personal pleasure...lol..what you are advocating with fair use is movie dvd piracy...the ability to swap, pirate unpaid for dvds with friends etc..we all know that!....dont we!...what the issue really is...what is a fair price to pay for movie dvds that reimburse movie companies..the source of our viewing pleasure...to keep making movies...without making us feel like we are not paying exorbitant dollars for their product...otherwise we kill the goose that lays the golden egg...all you people on here sound like you are being hard done by ...by the movie companies! LOL

Oh yes because every copy and lended film and game is equatable to a lost sale.

The law allows you to make a backup to not damage your original but beyond that skirting that is the legal equivalent of J walking. But its more effective for the corporations to put that 800LB gorilla butt on the consumer and try and police by proxy than it is to say their are core issues with their business model thats the real reason they are losing sales.

Also it would be a good thing if the industry failed a new one would come up with a better business model thats less anti consumer.

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