Hollywood vs. Your PC<\/b><\/p>\n
There’s an interesting article on PC World’s Web site<\/a> today explaining the reasons why Hollywood is trying to control your PC (or you Mac). It’s a complex, political issue with more ramifications than we can imagine. The article includes a chart<\/a> that lists what we’re actually allowed to do with digital media. I doubt you’ve all been very nervous about respecting the laws with your MP3s and DVDs, but it’s interesting to see the possible « crimes » listed in such a clear way. <\/p>\n There’s also a section on the history of copyright. It’s funny to remember that back in 1908, sheet music publishers filed suits against publishers of player-piano rolls who were making a killing selling recordings of popular tunes, without paying composers a dime. And in 1984, The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Universal Studios’ lawsuit against Sony, which had contended that Sony’s VCRs allowed copyright infringement by giving « monsieur et madame tout le monde » the ability to make copies of their own movies. In the meantime the court case<\/a> opposing the TV networks vs the maker of tv recorder ReplayTV, and its commercial-skipping button, is still pending. (See also Technophobia over the years<\/a>).<\/p>\n Speaking of TV recorders, has anybody tried Bell ExpressVu’s new Personal Video Recorder<\/a>? After years of waiting, the technology is finally available in Canada, yet I’m wondering if it’s not too late. Will HP’s Media Center PC<\/a> (available at the end of the month) render these types of TV recorders obsolete?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hollywood vs. Your PC There’s an interesting article on PC World’s Web site today explaining the reasons why Hollywood is trying to control your PC (or you Mac). It’s a complex, political issue with more ramifications than we can imagine. The article includes a chart that lists what we’re actually allowed to do with digital… Continue reading 85594871<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}