As the Library of Congress considers requests for exemptions to the DMCA, as they do every three years, the MPAA is focusing on reversing a decision from 2006. That's the year they began allowing professors to bypass copy protection (CSS, ACSS, etc,...) "for educational use in the classroom by media studies or film professors."
As if to demonstrate the absurdity of their position, MPAA ... [ read the full article ]
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I interpret this to say the professors can CAM a DVD/BD/TV version of something. Next step, lobby to have recording devices fitted with technology to detect when they're pointed at a video monitor.
Grand finale- if they get THAT passed, guess what, they've successfully closed every avenue of recording any broadcast from any source.
