RE: [dvd-discuss] Salon Artice on DVD Commentary

[Joshua Stratton <cpt(at)gryphon.auspice.net>]

I noticed that too. I sent a letter to the author a few days ago and have 
heard back. He's aware of the dates now, but was really just interested in 
showing that it predated Ebert.

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Steve Hosgood wrote:

> > > From: Ernest Miller [mailto:ernest.miller@aya.yale.edu]
> > > 
> > > http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2002/09/25/dvd_comment
> > > ary/index.html
> > > 
> > Just a short step from "legitimate" commentary
> > to MST3K-style ... and then what have you got?
> > Essentially the same thing we've been discussing
> > about inserting third-party material directly
> > into the flick ...
> > 
> 
> Worth noting that this forum has dealt with this subject matter before,
> and well predating the June 2001 date mentioned in the Salon article too!
> 
> Check out http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/archive/dvd-discuss/msg12105.html
> et al...
> 
> OK, so that thread was more concerned with the technicalities, but I think
> the legal aspects were mentioned at least a few times. Mostly though to
> do with using the "obvious legality" of doing your own DVD commentaries
> to try and show legitimate uses for linux DVD players employing non-DVDCCA
> authorised decryption algorithms.
> 
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