Comments on: DRM vs. Fair Use http://techliberation.com/2006/02/01/drm-vs-fair-use/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Fri, 25 May 2012 08:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Hieronimus http://techliberation.com/2006/02/01/drm-vs-fair-use/comment-page-1/#comment-32647 Hieronimus Fri, 03 Mar 2006 00:24:12 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/02/01/drm-vs-fair-use/#comment-32647 <p><a href="http://uscode.house.gov/usc.htm" rel="nofollow">woeuo</a> akuclfaiizm</p> woeuo akuclfaiizm

]]> By: Hieronimus http://techliberation.com/2006/02/01/drm-vs-fair-use/comment-page-1/#comment-51831 Hieronimus Fri, 03 Mar 2006 00:24:12 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/02/01/drm-vs-fair-use/#comment-51831 <p><a href="http://uscode.house.gov/usc.htm" rel="nofollow">woeuo</a> akuclfaiizm</p> woeuo akuclfaiizm

]]> By: Kevin Marks http://techliberation.com/2006/02/01/drm-vs-fair-use/comment-page-1/#comment-32646 Kevin Marks Thu, 09 Feb 2006 22:27:15 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/02/01/drm-vs-fair-use/#comment-32646 <p>Actually, that's an iTunes limitation rather than a DRM one; if you use QuickTime Player or GarageBand you can edit clips out. With QT Player you will only be able to play them on a licensed machine though. Not sure about Garageband,</p> <p>Anything you buy form iTunes store should be burned to CD, so you can then exercise fair use on the uncompressed CD Audio.</p> <p>The reason iTunes Store's DRM doesn't destroy much economic value si that they include the circumvention in the tool itself.</p> Actually, that’s an iTunes limitation rather than a DRM one; if you use QuickTime Player or GarageBand you can edit clips out. With QT Player you will only be able to play them on a licensed machine though. Not sure about Garageband,

Anything you buy form iTunes store should be burned to CD, so you can then exercise fair use on the uncompressed CD Audio.

The reason iTunes Store’s DRM doesn’t destroy much economic value si that they include the circumvention in the tool itself.

]]> By: Kevin Marks http://techliberation.com/2006/02/01/drm-vs-fair-use/comment-page-1/#comment-51830 Kevin Marks Thu, 09 Feb 2006 22:27:15 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/02/01/drm-vs-fair-use/#comment-51830 <p>Actually, that's an iTunes limitation rather than a DRM one; if you use QuickTime Player or GarageBand you can edit clips out.<br>With QT Player you will only be able to play them on a licensed machine though. Not sure about Garageband,<br><br>Anything you buy form iTunes store should be burned to CD, so you can then exercise fair use on the uncompressed CD Audio.<br><br>The reason iTunes Store's DRM doesn't destroy much economic value si that they include the circumvention in the tool itself.</p> Actually, that’s an iTunes limitation rather than a DRM one; if you use QuickTime Player or GarageBand you can edit clips out.
With QT Player you will only be able to play them on a licensed machine though. Not sure about Garageband,

Anything you buy form iTunes store should be burned to CD, so you can then exercise fair use on the uncompressed CD Audio.

The reason iTunes Store’s DRM doesn’t destroy much economic value si that they include the circumvention in the tool itself.

]]> By: Tim http://techliberation.com/2006/02/01/drm-vs-fair-use/comment-page-1/#comment-32645 Tim Wed, 01 Feb 2006 19:46:19 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/02/01/drm-vs-fair-use/#comment-32645 <p>Luis: an excellent point!</p> <p>naiserie: unfortunately, there are several hundred of them who happen to be members of Congress.</p> Luis: an excellent point!

naiserie: unfortunately, there are several hundred of them who happen to be members of Congress.

]]> By: Tim http://techliberation.com/2006/02/01/drm-vs-fair-use/comment-page-1/#comment-51829 Tim Wed, 01 Feb 2006 19:46:19 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/02/01/drm-vs-fair-use/#comment-51829 <p>Luis: an excellent point!<br><br>naiserie: unfortunately, there are several hundred of them who happen to be members of Congress.</p> Luis: an excellent point!

naiserie: unfortunately, there are several hundred of them who happen to be members of Congress.

]]> By: naiserie http://techliberation.com/2006/02/01/drm-vs-fair-use/comment-page-1/#comment-32644 naiserie Wed, 01 Feb 2006 19:21:49 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/02/01/drm-vs-fair-use/#comment-32644 <p>DMCA supporters? Such people exist? (outside of Hollywood & the Beltway?)</p> DMCA supporters? Such people exist? (outside of Hollywood & the Beltway?)

]]> By: naiserie http://techliberation.com/2006/02/01/drm-vs-fair-use/comment-page-1/#comment-51828 naiserie Wed, 01 Feb 2006 19:21:49 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/02/01/drm-vs-fair-use/#comment-51828 <p>DMCA supporters? Such people exist? (outside of Hollywood & the Beltway?)</p> DMCA supporters? Such people exist? (outside of Hollywood & the Beltway?)

]]> By: Luis Villa http://techliberation.com/2006/02/01/drm-vs-fair-use/comment-page-1/#comment-32643 Luis Villa Wed, 01 Feb 2006 18:48:44 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/02/01/drm-vs-fair-use/#comment-32643 <p>Profs teaching film courses are similarly hosed by DVD copy protection. Basically completely hosed, in fact- DMCA makes it fairly clearly illegal to bypass all the crap that the studios put at the front of the movie, which makes it totally impractical to do the core action of a film class- show film clips.</p> Profs teaching film courses are similarly hosed by DVD copy protection. Basically completely hosed, in fact- DMCA makes it fairly clearly illegal to bypass all the crap that the studios put at the front of the movie, which makes it totally impractical to do the core action of a film class- show film clips.

]]> By: Luis Villa http://techliberation.com/2006/02/01/drm-vs-fair-use/comment-page-1/#comment-51827 Luis Villa Wed, 01 Feb 2006 18:48:44 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/02/01/drm-vs-fair-use/#comment-51827 <p>Profs teaching film courses are similarly hosed by DVD copy protection. Basically completely hosed, in fact- DMCA makes it fairly clearly illegal to bypass all the crap that the studios put at the front of the movie, which makes it totally impractical to do the core action of a film class- show film clips.</p> Profs teaching film courses are similarly hosed by DVD copy protection. Basically completely hosed, in fact- DMCA makes it fairly clearly illegal to bypass all the crap that the studios put at the front of the movie, which makes it totally impractical to do the core action of a film class- show film clips.

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