[lotuseclat79]

When RealNetworks Settled on DVD Copying, We All Lost.

RealNetworks just screwed us all by settling lawsuits in which it might have lost--but which might also have given some new life to fair use for digital media.

The post-RealDVD world means that unless there's a major change to the law surrounding copy protection, there will never be a legal way to perform legal acts of copying or shifting protected movies, music, and games.

Take it from a guy who has a special E Ticket. The major movie studios can never sue me nor four other individuals ever for a variety of media-moving activities that you and 300 million other Americans could be subject to lawsuits over. It's like a superpower. More on how we got this pass later.

-- Tom

[tomdkat]

I dunno, I don't think I lost anything. Why not? Because I have no need to copy DVDs at all.

Thanks for the link to the article.

Peace...