Don't Rip -- Point & Shoot

[Steve_MB]

The MPAA’s efforts to curtail the fair-use provisions of copyright law reach a comical new extreme:

The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Fred von Lohmann sez, "Hearings for the DMCA triennial rulemaking are going on this week in DC, where the educational community is asking for an exemption to rip DVDs to take clips for classroom use. The MPAA responded with a video showing how to camcord (!) movies from a flat screen monitor, arguing that educators and students should do this instead of ripping DVDs…

[TBG]

I’m surprised they didn’t suggest that every student in class has to buy a copy of the DVD first before it can even be disussed.

[Auntbeast]

TBG: It was a business model that worked in college. (yes, I purchased textbooks that we used 3 chapters out of that cost more than $40)

[Cornelius_Tuggerson]

@Auntbeast

TBG: It was a business model that worked in college. (yes, I purchased textbooks that we used 3 chapters out of that cost more than $40)

Try never opened for $190. I stopped buying books and just took really good notes after that one.