eBay: Burn DVD movies onto CD?

David Honig honig at sprynet.com
Thu Jun 21 13:29:40 PDT 2001


At 01:48 PM 6/21/01 +0200, Lars Gaarden wrote:
>David Honig wrote:
>> Not if you have lawfully paid for the content.
>
>
>As read by the MPAA, the DMCA enable them to sell you a locked house
>and then drag you to court if you try to pick the lock.

Look everyone, I know the judge at the current level of the legal
system needs a lobe job.  Why should I take him seriously?  


>> If a cartridge doesn't have (C) SEGA in it, it won't play... ergo,
>> (C) SEGA is not protected.
>
>
>Didn't the original IBM BIOS use this trick. e.g, look for a
>'copyright ibm' string in the BIOS image?

Dunno.  

(PS: Note that the (C) SEGA string may be my gisting.)





 






  








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