Re: [dvd-discuss] More entertainment.

["Ernest Miller" <ernest.miller(at)aya.yale.edu>]

I've written a fully annotated version:

The Annotated Valenti
http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&sid=168

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael A Rolenz" <Michael.A.Rolenz@aero.org>
To: <dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu>
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] More entertainment.


> He's just showing his true agenda
>
> "What needs to happen is we all sit down
> together in good-faith negotiations and come to some
> conclusions on how we can construct a broadcast flag (for
> keeping digital TV content off the Internet), "
>
> <put the CONTROL into the privacy of your home and prevent anyone from
> telling you...cut trace here. Solder jumper THERE>
>
> "on how we
> plug the analog hole (allowing people to record digital
> content off older televisions and other devices), and how
>  we deal with the persistent and devilish problem of
> peer-to-peer."
>
> <Stop all recording. Read KILL VCRs KILL FAIR USE! THe fair use doctrine
> exists outside the media. >
>
>
>
>
> Tim Neu <tim@tneu.visi.com>
> Sent by: owner-dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> 04/04/02 11:19 AM
> Please respond to dvd-discuss
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>
> Jack Valenti's got a Q&A article up on zdnet.
>
> http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-875420.html
>
> <sarcasm>
> Looks like file swappers are going to make the movie industry bankrupt.
> (again).   Probably just like when the VCR's killed the movie industry.
>
> I sometimes wish he really would go bankrupt so we wouldn't have to listen
> to him anymore.  Jack is even willing to stoop to the level of comparing
> copyright infringment to terrorism!
>
> He's been so wrong in the past, why do people still listen to him?
> Granted, everyone makes mistakes, but this is a perfect parallel to the
> VCRs of the 80's!  It's the same situation!  The fact that the movie
> industry still make money proves that he's wrong already!  Peer to peer
> technology, combined with compression technology makes movie swapping a
> reality now.
>
> It's really too bad they're going out of business! I was hoping to see the
> Two Towers in the theater this December!
> </sarcasm>
>
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