Once again I am in awe as to how brain-dead the MPAA agenda-pushers and legislators must be. The status-quo is beyond ridiculous.

Next week they demonstrate how to create fair-use clips of music for the classroom, by direct recording the output of a paper cup attached via a piece of string to a phonograph.

I can't grasp the logic. They're still making a video of the same copyright-protected-content on the DVD... If this is acceptable, they have no legal case vs. Cam versions of pirated films, do they?

All this does is let people make a funky reach-around to create an inferior-quality version of the original, when they have the original available. Basically, they're simply labeling teachers as film pirates now. Good Job legal corporate brainiac.

I love how the clip he uses @ 3:20 is completely gory and out of sync with the meeting they are having.

wait why would you record off the screen when you could just run the video output from the dvd player or vcr into the input of a recording device instead of just doing a screener.

or we can *promote this futile sham - sort out a better business model and trying to f**k your customers over....

Self promoting this video back to the front page; last published Sunday, May 10th, 2009 9:46am PDT - promote requested by original submitter Zonbie.

A camcorder recording a projector showing a camcorder recording a TV. Nice.

Brb. Going to record my monitor with my camcorder and upload it encouraging other people to camcorder it. I wonder how many copies it will take to just become a video of noise? It would probably still make more sense than the original.

Dumbest thing ever.

This is just insane.

Now, I agree that ripping a dvd and putting online for sharing and thousands of people downloading that and watching it, free of charge, with nothing going back to those that created it is wrong. I do it, but it's wrong, you can't justify it really. (I do buy the movies on DVD if I like them... but wait, that's a justification).

BUT... to then take a situation which is fair use and say... well, actually yeah, there is this really simple way you could do it which is free and convenient and results in no quality loss. OR, hey, we'd prefer you to do it this convoluted way... um... because, well... really, we don't want people to know about how easy it actually is to do it digitally, and we have this weird mentality that doing THAT is wrong (because of our copy protection)... but doing it THIS way, this RETARDED way... well, that's ok.

"So, sir, about doing this EXACT same thing in a movie theater?"

"Oh no... no, you can't do that... that's illegal for another reason... um, hang on... let me wade through this really large legal binder..."

Whoa, INDIANA JONES: THE LAST CRUSADE SPOILER ALERT!

Really though, what are these guys trying to accomplish here? I'm confused.

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I love how the clip he uses @ 3:20 is completely gory and out of sync with the meeting they are having.


Fear tactic?

Trippy. At about 50 seconds in, you experience yourself looking at a computer screen, on which is someone's head in a dark room looking at a projector screen, on which is the girl looking at the camcorder screen, on which is the dvd video on the tv screen.

Dat be sohm Twilight Zone sheet ray' derr, mon.

Business people who don't understand their product or customers? I'm stunned.

The original intent behind Fair Use has been so distorted and twisted, it's about due for a complete tear down and rewrite. The problem is, someone would try to apply the same rules that you now see to it. That doesn't change the problem, it also doesn't change the fact that educational use is being distorted.

OH MY GOD!!! OUR OVERPAID INDUSTRY IS LOSING MANY INFLATED DOLLARS!!! NOW WE'LL ALL LOSE OUR OVERPAID SALARIES!!!!

Pfff...remember what movies are. They're a form of art (or they should be). I see technology as bringing these exploitation artists back to Earth and making it a level playing ground.

It's not like if we don't pay actors immense amount of money there won't be actors anymore. You can't use the "doctor defense" in this case. Because plenty of people would act for the art of acting. Let's stop paying people for no reason.

LOL, stupid fuckers. These asshats are providing the text-book definition for generations to come on how to completely alienate your potential customers and make everyone hate you. They make me want to pirate the shit out of everything... so I will. Except Star Trek.

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Don't worry. The internet will fix things eventually. It's just going to take some time for the gray old men to die.

RETARDED

I wonder what else they do in the dark...