Comments on: Hollywood studios sue RealNetworks for RealDVD

By: Wow It's Real

Wow It's Real — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:02:24 +0000

Other countries involved in the ACTA talks are Switzerland, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Jordan, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates.

By: Protoculture

Protoculture — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:00:57 +0000

Hilarious, don’t Sony (one of the companies sueing) make DVD BURNERS?? First they enable us to burn, then sue us for doing so. Quite a racket they have going.

exactly! and some of their writers even come with NERO! wooptido!

By: Marybeth Wuerthner

Marybeth Wuerthner — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:58:14 +0000

Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement = Censorship! Why pay and support that? Unless your the MPAA and RIAA wanting to crack down on the public in return for more profits!

Follow the money:

Top four campaign contributions for 2006:

Time Warner $21,000
News Corp $15,000
Sony Corp of America $14,000
Walt Disney Co $13,550

Top two Industries:

TV/Movies/Music $181,050
Lawyers/Law Firms $114,200

By: Protoculture

Protoculture — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:57:49 +0000

it is all about the benjamins.

By: Kamran Alavi

Kamran Alavi — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:53:56 +0000

Rise up and defend yourself, it’s your culture, your society, right?

Enough is enough! Resist and fight back, or don’t regret later! Once, these new laws come into enforcement, which will be a lot more difficult to deal and cope…

Now is the time, boycott all MPAA and RIAA until they reform, repent!

By: Public Notice

Public Notice — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:47:30 +0000

Sorry to burst your bubble about the MPAA or RIAA in the USA…

In case you all didn’t know, almost all the governments of foreign countries, are trying to establish a new international legal framework, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement!

The proposed agreement would criminalize copyright and intellectual property offenses. Under ACTA, Internet service providers would be required to filter illegal transfers of content and help the government track down the people downloading it. Border patrols would gain the authority to seize and destroy copyrighted materials at the border.

The deal would create a international regulator that would turn border guards and other public security personnel into copyright police! The security officials would be charged with checking laptops, iPods and even cellular phones for content that “infringes” on copyright laws, such as ripped CDs and movies.

Also, governments would be able to charge individuals with copyright-related crimes even if rights holders do not request that charges be pressed.

https://secure.wikileaks.org/leak/acta-proposal-2007.pdf

By: tnuc ginkcuf

tnuc ginkcuf — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:42:23 +0000

Copying your own wedding home video is illegal?

By: jpt

jpt — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:54:30 +0000

I have to agree with LK #19 on this one. Well said mate..

Spread the truth people… RIAA, MPAA, government bodies, all of them need to be well fuc*ked…

“we are just peons in this big sh!tting world” – my saying

By: Professor

Professor — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:52:24 +0000

this is silly, it’s like saying, ok i’am going to sue beer companies because if there isn’t beer, people won’t break the law of drunk driving, so beer companies are guilty because they make drunk driving possible.

RealDVD didn’t state in the instruction that it is make for copying dvd of those password protected right? You can’t sue someone for their high technology, and this technology is very in general, it’s not saying..”wanna bypass copyright protection and copy movies illegally? if so, then use me”!

By: johnny_pt

johnny_pt — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:49:40 +0000

are we going thru this sh*it again? piracy isn’t good and we know it. But studios are just feeling pressured by it… lots of money involved, isn’t it? sons of a biatches, who is the bad guy now? are we, pirates yet guys who help others sharing stuff or are them, the fu[kers who earn milions of dollars a month?

Su[k my co[k, will ya?

By: Respect-My-Authority

Respect-My-Authority — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:15:46 +0000

I have to agree with the MPAA on this one. I think they have reason to file a lawsuit in the fact that people can and will rent movies and copy them over to their computer before bringing them back. However, I was doing that long before RealDVD came out, and it’ll still be quite possible when it leaves. RealDVD might have made it easier, not sure though because I’ve never used it, but I still found other programs that were pretty easy to use. I think the major thing is the fact that RealDVD is paid for, and will be more known then alot of shareware programs. They can never really stop shareware programs as they are linked to hundreds, thousands, and maybe hundreds of thousands of sites. I’m still using a program that was released maybe 4-5 years ago, and can still be found on the web to this day, and it takes all the security off the DVDs as well as save them to your computer. Much worse than RealDVD, but the studio’s and the MPAA will take what they can get I guess.

By: Newt182

Newt182 — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:08:53 +0000

DVDxCopy springs to mind, similar thing happened to them a few years ago.

By: LK

LK — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:10:02 +0000

The tighter the RIAA & MPAA grasp their fists, denying people the reasonable use of material that has made it’s way into the public domain, the more will slip through. They may as well try to hold on to air or water for all the good their attempts do.

As for RealDVD… Sounds interesting, but I like using DVDshrink. It’s FREE and works awesome. Shrinks a commercial DVD to fit on a regular 4.7Gb disc. And YES I use it when I need to copy a DVD.

I think it’s SICK how the MPAA & RIAA have tried to make everyone who enjoys movies, music, etc, into a criminal suspect in their eyes. It’s my profound hope that MY government tells the US one to go to hell as far as the whole “pirating” thing goes.

If you want REAL piracy, how about charging FIFTEEN BUX to rent a seat for a couple hours! Or SIXTEEN BUX for 30 cents worth of sugar water & corn! THAT is REAL piracy! Lower prices in theatres to less than HALF of what they currently are & see how many people would go to the movies rather than download em!

By: Groover

Groover — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:03:03 +0000

MPAA is going to lose this one, I’m pretty sure… of course it depends how crooked (payed) the judge is that is…

By: IzaH8R

IzaH8R — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:17:39 +0000

Isn’t it great that the United States….which is known as the land of Freedom,has allowed so many freedoms to be taken away from the people. It’s really no wonder the rest of the world hates us, we run around talking a big game about how every nation should have freedom….then we take treat our own people like everyone is a terrorist and claim it’s for the best. At one time Nazism was thought to be the best thing for Germany…and we all know how that turned out. I believe it’s time for the American people to stand up and fight for our rights. We need to stop letting corporations run our country and put the power back into the hands of the people. It’s just sickening when the oil company’s have higher security clearances than the FBI and CIA…..WTF MAN!!!!

“Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both” – Jefferson

“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.” – Ronald Regan

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” — C. S. Lewis

“Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power.” Benjamin Franklin