Re: [dvd-discuss] Technology Admin comments

[microlenz(at)earthlink.net]

WHAT! Do mean to suppose that having purchased it, it is now YOUR personal 
property! How DARE you challenge the wisdom and might of JackBoots Valenti!

But, that's been part of the whole problem here that the courts don't seem to 
understand - the difference between intellectual property and personal 
property. A purchased DVD is personal property not intellectual property.


On 13 Jul 2002 at 5:49, PSYchiccr@aol.com wrote:

From:           	PSYchiccr@aol.com
Date sent:      	Sat, 13 Jul 2002 05:49:56 EDT
Subject:        	Re: [dvd-discuss] Technology Admin comments
To:             	dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
Send reply to:  	dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu

> What needs to be said is  That once we buy a movie or playing equipment we
> should be free to use it........... DVD should play on my laptop where ever in
> the world I take it......... It is built for portable World-Wide use and I have
> not got that right now.........If I drive an English car to France it will still
> run, there is no region code to say I must now buy a French car, and then at the
> Spanish border get a Seat Ibiza..........Why is the movie industry a special
> case......... You buy the movie it should be yours and I am sure this is a
> breach of rights..........