[x-pubpol] The MPAA regrets ....

[Joly MacFie]

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/what-does-it-mean-be-pro-technology-and-pro-internet



EFF is asking the Copyright Office for legal exemptions to the Digital
Millennium
Copyright Act to allow jailbreaking (or "rooting") of smartphones, tablets,
and game
consoles, so that people can run their software of choice on the devices
they own.  EFF is
also asking for exemptions that will allow noncommercial video remixers to
use video clips
from DVDs and online video services.  Other organizations are asking for
exemptions for
various forms of digital video, accessibility for the disabled, and other
important
projects.  Under the DMCA, exemptions expire every three years, and have to
be justified
all over again. Many of you sent comments and signed petitions in support
of EFF's
exemption requests, and the Copyright Office received almost 700 comments.


MPAA and friends don't approve of a single one of the exemption requests.
"The risk
associated with encouraging people to circumvent and test the limits of
fair use is too
high," they say, and the makers of computing devices should be able to stop
"unintended
uses" of their products.  In fact, say the entertainment lobbies, giving
you the ability
to modify your own devices for your own use will "wreak havoc" on "markets
for consumer
access to works."


And speaking of permission, MPAA regrets that "the Copyright Office missed
an opportunity
to endorse" the custom of "asking permission" before innovating.


Apparently this is what Mr. Dodd means when he says "Hollywood is
pro-technology and
pro-Internet": technology that blocks "unintended uses" and an Internet
subject to
Hollywood's veto power.  SOPA and PIPA may be dead, but the agenda behind
them seems alive
and well.


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