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Fair Use Just Isn’t Fair Anymore

Jason Bean — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:04:44 +0000

I’m not sure if you’ve been paying attention or not, or perhaps don’t even care. If you don’t care, you might want to start paying attention, because at some point recent changes to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act may make you pay for your own content multiple times.

With the recent changes software companies are being told they can’t produce software that would let consumers make copies of the DVD’s they’ve already purchased. You might think that makes sense, but have you ever copied a CD so you and your spouse, or kids could listen to the same CD in each of your cars or one for the car, one for the house?

If I had an easy way to do it, I’d make copies of all of my DVD’s and keep the originals stored on a bookshelf like I keep books. When the kids wanted to watch a DVD, they’d pull out the copy of the DVD to use. Then, when they forgot to put it back in the case and it got kicked under the entertainment center, I wouldn’t worry about it getting scratched.

My real dream would be to somewhat of a media jukebox distributed throughout my house. I’d love to burn all of our music and DVD’s into a single computer and storage network and be able to access the files from any TV, audio device or computer from anywhere in the house.

With these recent changes I’d be breaking the law. It seems to me that once I purchase a DVD or CD, that I should be able to do pretty much whatever I want with it except for distributing it outside of my own home or personal property. Nope. I’m a felon instead.

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Fair Use Just Isn’t Fair Anymore

Introducing Swaptree

Milo Riano — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:41:00 +0000

Computers games only cost between $20 to $40 USD but in this economic recession, it is best to save money here and there. Games are luxury costs and to help you manage expenses, you can use swaptree.

Swaptree allows you to post PC games you want to get rid of and you can also post the list of games you want. The algorithm of Swaptree would do all the calculations and make recommendations on the swapping of PC games. Not only can you swap games, you can also do this with your console games, DVDs, & CDs.

The service is free and you only pay for the shipping cost.

Go ahead and try Swaptree.

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Introducing Swaptree

Bill Says Screw DRM, Just Rip It

Jason Bean — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 06:20:29 +0000

It seems Bill Gates is in touch with reality and understands that DRM is just a pain in butt for most people. Of course it’s necessary though, I don’t fault any company for trying to protect their business interests and profitability. The problem is it just gets in the way. If I purchase a digital copy of the song, why can’t I have the same rights with it as I would if I bought the original CD. Make a copy of it, play it on any device with no hurdles to jump through.

Bill agrees

People should just buy a cd and rip it. You are legal then.

The ForeverGeek article goes onto to expand their idea of a person’s right to songs after they purchase them on CD and rip them. Can they copy it anywhere and play it on any device? Can they make a copy and give it to friends? If they sell the CD in the future, should they delete their ripped copies of the songs?

Let us know about your privacy opinions in our new poll. In this poll I’ve allowed you to vote more than once, so if you think you have the right to do multiple options. Vote for each one.

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Source: ForeverGeek

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Bill Says Screw DRM, Just Rip It