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Post #150046

Author
TR47
Parent topic
Original Trilogy.com in the Press
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Date created
24-Oct-2005, 1:40 PM
Best Buy carries them because there isn't a controversy about VHS to VHS or DVD to VHS conversions. With all the smoke blowing the studios do about piracy, their methods of combating it are woefully ass backwards. They understand that if they produce a title, some group in East Asia is going to counterfeit and sell copies of it. They also understand that if they do NOT produce a title, someone else will from whatever material is available (which is the case on this site). The DMCA does forbid circumventing copy protection algorithms but no one really cares except IP lawyers and their clients. The reason they are suing their customers and making such a hoopla about it is fear-they are afraid of a perceived threat to their outdated business models in which they control all aspects of distribution. The same basic problem happened when the VCR came about-the studios thought it would bankrupt them, and it did the opposite when they grasped the potential the new technology had to offer. It's really no different now except the end user has much more control, and that is what they don't want.
Anyway, for LFL to sue you, they would first have to know who you are, and where you live. Somehow, I seriously doubt anyone here would volunteer that info.