RE: [dvd-discuss] Movie Downloads, automatically illegal?

[Richard Hartman <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

Well, that's different.   Your DVD, your laptop.  That's
standard space-shifting & has been previously acknowledged
as a fair use for other media (e.g. CD->cassette).  

Downloading over the internet, you're probably _not_ copying
from your own DVD.

-- 
-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. C. Sessions [mailto:dcs@lumbercartel.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 8:34 PM
> To: DVD-Discuss
> Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Movie Downloads, automatically illegal?
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 13:39, Tim Neu wrote:
> > On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Ronald Austin wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wednesday 31 July 2002 11:38 am, you wrote:
> > > > Sorry, I have no sympathy for that kid.
> > >
> > > Neither do I, he might rent that movie from me if he 
> didn't download it from
> > > the internet. I lose a lot of rentals from downloaded or 
> copied movies. If
> > 
> > Does an internet download of a movie automatically gain 
> illegal status?
> > We don't need to make the MPAA's argument for them!   Lets 
> take a closer
> > look:
> 
> Take "internet" out of it.  How about "network?"
> You own the DVD, you own the laptop, your DVD drive is in a
> desktop machine and you're headed off on a trip with the laptop.
> 
> Please explain why you shouldn't download movies to the laptop
> hard drive for later viewing.
> 
> If this is legitimate, explain how the size of the network
> changes it.
> 
> -- 
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> |  the strength to change the things I cannot accept, and the   |
> |    cunning to hide the bodies of those who got in my way.     |
> +------------- D. C. Sessions <dcs@lumbercartel.com> -----------+
> 
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