All the cards are stacked against the little guy. Filing a lawsuit isn't that expensive -- at least not to a big corporation. But if you're an artist or consumer, who can afford such a thing? |
Hollywood wants to put a mark -- sort of like a mark of the beast for video content -- that says that this is MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) content, and we want to control what you can do with it. |
I think people are encouraged that now you have television episodes that you can download. It shows that (the industry) is finally beginning to take seriously the demand for online. |
It really shows they are becoming a grown-up company. The Internet companies are belatedly realizing that they can't ignore Washington. |
It would be more of an uphill fight to justify downloading 'The Sopranos' if you're not an HBO subscriber. |
It would be more of an uphill fight to justify downloading 'The Sopranos' if you're not an HBO subscriber. |
Music fans deserve to know whether EMI's copy-restricted CDs are exposing their computers to security risks. When it comes to computer security, it pays to have as many independent experts kick the tires as possible, and that can only happen if EMI assures those experts that they won't be sued for their trouble. |
Now that the Sony debacle is widely known, it's pretty much known that other bad guys will be looking for vulnerability in copy protection technology. |
Our best hope for getting amendments to the DMCA is for more regular consumers to feel the pinch of the DMCA. |
The DMCA has chilled the efforts of computer security researchers interested in examining copy-protected CDs. |
The fact that plaintiffs are using a court order to go into people's homes and collect data for them is unheard of. This is a company that has not been found guilty of doing anything wrong. |
There's basically no benefit from the consumer's point of view. |
They've sued more than 19,000 people for file-sharing, so they clearly have shown a willingness to go after regular people. |
This isn't just idle paranoia. The technology companies are sensitive because they remember all too well that when the VCR was introduced, the movie studios sued them. When the digital audio player was introduced, the record companies sued them. And when the MP3 player was introduced, the record companies sued them for that too. |
This isn't just idle paranoia. The technology companies are sensitive because they remember all too well that when the VCR was introduced, the movie studios sued them. When the digital audio player was introduced, the record companies sued them. And when the MP3 player was introduced, the record companies sued them for that too. |