copyright justice; What do you get if you cross Adobe with Jack Valenti
Mr. Falun Gong
balun_bong at cnnic.cn
Fri Jul 20 12:10:48 PDT 2001
What do you get if you cross Adobe with Jack Valenti? An asshole who
jails the
guy who sells patch cords to connect VCRs...
Here's a video store owner doing time for profiting from illegally duped
material. No circumvention devices needed. This is just, proper, and
traditional
use of the law.
The man who sparked furious protests in
Little Saigon by hanging a poster of Ho Chi
Minh and flying a Vietnamese flag in his video
store is scheduled to surrender to authorities
today and begin serving a 90-day jail
sentence.
Truong Van Tran, 39, of Stanton was
charged with video piracy under state law
after police who were at his Bolsa Avenue
store in 1999 to protect him spotted 147
videocassette recorders in his shop, Hi Tek
TV & VCR, and later determined he had
17,000 bogus videos.
He was convicted in August 1999 and
sentenced to 90 days in jail and three years'
probation. He has been free on bail while he
appealed his conviction. The state Supreme
Court refused to hear his case in May.
http://latimes.com/news/local/orange/la-000059255jul20.story?coll=la%2Deditions%2Dorange%2Doc%5Fnews
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