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Re: [dvd-discuss] Used and Rental CD's.



On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Noah silva wrote:

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> On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Scott A Crosby wrote:
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> I doubt that's true though... CDs (pressed ones) last for a very long
> time.  look at "ask the experts" on sciam.com (among other places).
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Well, a lot of them are done by artists who are still alive, so that means
they won't leave copyright till at least 2075 or so.. Which, among other
things is around the predicted lifespan of CD's. Plus, anyone want to
give odds that there will be functional DVD readers in existance then?

How easy is it to play Graham Bell's origional record cylindars nowadays?

Plus, these DVD's are encrypted, so according to the DMCA, even if you
could manufacture a new DVD player, it'd be illegal to 'bypass the
copyright control technology' to decrypt the contents.

So, no, it may not be literally true, but I'd call it about 99.99% true. :)

Scott


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> > No DVD movie will ever enter the public domain, nor will any CD. The last CD
> > and the last DVD will have moldered away decades before they leave copyright.
> > This is not encouraging the creation of knowledge in the public domain.
> >
> >
>

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No DVD movie will ever enter the public domain, nor will any CD. The last CD
and the last DVD will have moldered away decades before they leave copyright.
This is not encouraging the creation of knowledge in the public domain.