Theres nothing like a little anti-consumer, DRM loving propaganda to get you in the mood to slap a kitten and make new friends in the slammer. The latest bout of stupidity and utter ignorance comes to us from none other than the MPAA. For some time now they’ve been trying to break everyone’s DVR so that we can’t record what we watch. They claim such devices hurt sales, artists, and promote piracy — all of which are baseless claims based on fear...
The MPAA much like the RIAA is a universally hated company with policies that are so technologically retarded and outdated it is astonishing that cases are actually being tried over those issues. RealNetworks, the company who is being sued for their product RealDVD for its ability to circumnavigate the anti-consumer encryption placed on DVD’s in order to allow consumers to back up their own DVD’s has just thrown another snake into the pit by way of anti-trust...
MPAA shows how to videorecord a TV set from timothy vollmer on Vimeo. All sane and normal human beings who actually have a tad bit of common sense know and already practice the art of ripping your own DVD’s for your own personal use because, well, you paid for it and it’s yours. BTFU! However, the MPAA who is thrashing about wildly and gasping for air as they die an increasingly progressive death seems to be stuck on the idea that we can’t do anything...
We all know the RIAA is a poisonous cancer on this earth. The MPAA, the evil twin of the RIAA goes head to head with RealNetworks over their completely legal RealDVD Software. The reason for the cat fight is that the MPAA sees the circumvention of encrypted DVD’s as illegal no matter the circumstance. Apparently we all rent our movies now. The legal tussle doesn’t even mention the obvious fact that copying a DVD for personal use, just as everyone does...
Since the RIAA has more or less dropped the individual lawsuits against poor single moms and 13 year old little girls they have turned their attention to a new body…ISP’s themselves. They figure why don’t we just go straight to the transmission source. Well right off the bat, anyone with half a clue on how filtering technology works knows it doesn’t work very well and more often than not, the normal law abiding invdividual is the one who gets...
