June 22nd, 2005 @ 1:23 am
Intel exec breaks law to show why its stupid
Darknet: Story: The tech exec who broke federal law (and why the law is broken)
Wow, Intel, perhaps they are big enough to get government to understand that these laws are stupid and not really helping with anything. its not “keeping honest people honest” THEY ARE HONEST ALREADY. when I buy a movie, I want to be able to watch it from my laptop with out having to carry all my dvds with me on a trip, I want to be able to make a back up and use that one and keep the original in the box, or use clips from it in home / personal videos for brief entertainment value on my part + advertisment for the movie.
And if someone wanted to steal the movie, nothing is going to stop them. As long as you can legally play / view the movie somehow, someone is going to figure out how to reverse engineer / disable that products cripling nature
stolen from boingboing
“I used a program to copy a few seconds from the DVD of the movie Rudy,” he said. “It’s the scene showing the final game of the Notre Dame season with Rudy’s family in the stands cheering wildly when he got to play. I then spliced in some snippets of pro players doing a touchdown dance from NFL Films, and I overlaid it with audio from ‘Who Let the Dogs Out?’
“I stitched this all together with video of my son, and it turned out to be the piece of home video that gets watched the most in our house. When relatives or members of the football team come over, we pop it in and we just laugh. The added scenes and music really bring it all to life.”
There was just one problem. “It turns out to do this, I violated the DMCA. I used the DeCSS program to circumvent the encryption and access the movie clips on the DVD that I own,” Whiteside told the aides. “The end product is a DVD that I don’t sell or distribute but is considered a derivative work under copyright law.”
