Re: [dvd-discuss] Royalty-Free DVDs

[microlenz(at)earthlink.net]

I wonder if the MPAA is starting to get on circumvention like the anti-
communist sketch of Monty Python "they crawling from out from under the bed, 
there's one peeping out of my wife's blouse..."  certainly the C&D notices for 
DeCSS were/are

On 29 May 2002 at 20:24, someone somewhere wrote:

From:           	"someone somewhere" <chaos755@hotmail.com>
To:             	dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
Subject:        	Re: [dvd-discuss] Royalty-Free DVDs
Date sent:      	Wed, 29 May 2002 20:24:05 +0200
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> 
> >New article on /.  To save $15 - $20 per player royalties, they've devised a
> >new standard which has higher capacity and apparently can play DVDs.  Is it a
> >circumvention device?
> >
> >http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/29/1738245&mode=thread&tid=98
> 
> I don't think it is, the dmca says that it's primary purpose must be 
> circumventing, but here, you still need the legitimate dvd.  I think the 
> only problem here has to do with patents.  ( although I wouldn't be 
> surprised if the mpaa ends up saying that it is a circumventing device)
> 
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