Re: [dvd-discuss] Music biz wants tougher DMCA, CPRM 2 toprotectcopyright

["John Zulauf" <johnzu(at)ia.nsc.com>]

They only thing that will stop this is when the copyright industry
understands that this sort of behavior is not in their best interests. 
Large legal liability exposure might be a really  goo place to start. 
Make sure that not only the media companies, but their technology
"collaborators" feel the heat**.

I really think we should consider "abuse of copyright" "collusion"
"price-fixing" "consumer rights/consumer fraud" class action against
these guys.  I wrote a (admittedly very flawed and non-legally savvy)
proposal for a class action suit on the Twiki -- it's broken but it has
an "edit" button on the bottom of each page.

Dean Sanchez wrote:
> 
> They're at it again.  It's obvious that the industry believes that
> citizens should only have the 'rights' that the industry is willing to
> grant.
> 
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/22087.html


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** I'm involved with a streaming content standards organizations, and
when I bring up to them the potential for legal liability in
creating/support TPM's (for example the current case against the CD
anti-copy technology, or some ADA challenge -- it get their attention. 
A big lawsuit against the SMDI, CPRM, 3C, 4C, 5C bodies would be enough
to make the rest of the industry far more circumspect about
colloboration I think.