SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT v PAUL OWEN & ORS (2002)

[Skywatch]

All,

But to play a CD you need to copy the data from the disk to the player's 
electronics.
The 'data' itself is unplayable without this copying as it needs to be 
processed via hardware/software.

Seems a moot point about all the non-rip CD's comming on the market. It 
only needs a CD player, a phono lead and a soundcard to get the info into 
the PC. From there MP3/WAV files could be made easily. Who are they fooling?

People have for years used audio and video tapes to copy records and TV 
(both copyrighted) and this fuss never happened. The media owners are 
getting greedy IMO.

As I see it, if I buy a CD, record, DAT, cassette, DVD, Video etc... I 
should be allowed to keep it on any format that I wish to use it on. Not 
reselling it, not distributing it, just using it for my personal pleasure.

I am transferring some old 12" singles to CD to preserve them better and 
remove all the clicks etc.... I cannot buy them on CD (some are 20 years 
old!) - So will the copywrong police be kicking in my door soon?

I hope that there are mass boycots against media vendors who try to limit 
what we can use to listen to their media on. If they do not release 
software that will work on a PC CD rom they will ENCOURAGE piracy. I know 
many young people who have Pc's but no Hi-Fi . They use the PC CD drive 
instead. Even if they do buy the protected CD they cannot use it. They 
cannot buy a PC friendly version either. So where do they go for their PC 
compatable media? The internet?

If IDE copyright encryption is built into all HDD's to limit copyrighted 
material, would this also apply to HDD video recorders which are now 
becomming widely available?

Skywatch



At 23:37 15/05/2002 +0100, Nexus wrote:
>Looks like Sony are on a mission...
>
>http://www.politechbot.com/p-03515.html
>A nice irony: Blizzard sends DMCA nastygram, then DMCA'd by Sony
>[...]
>Blizzard was recently served with a DMCA ("Digital Millennium Copyright Act)
>notification from Sony Music for copyright infringement. This infringement
>was allegedly committed by one of our employees who was purportedly using a
>peer-to-peer file-sharing program on a Blizzard computer system to share
>copyrighted music with others over the Internet.
>[...]
>
>Cheers,
>             JJ




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