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Originally Posted by Snappy!
why [are] the courts are ruling that unauthorised duplication and/or distribution of copyrighted materials is against the law?  |
I just ran across an article in the Washington Post from April 21, 2006, that points out that if you purchased a movie on DVD and copied it "onto your Apple iPod, Sony PlayStation Portable, PDA, or notebook for an upcoming trip" that would be copyright infringement.
However, if you recorded the movie on Tivo, burned it onto a DVD and then copied it onto your handheld, that wouldn't be.
The internal contradictions of the system originally set up to encourage creativity and invention are perfectly evident here. Interposing the law into technical matters is just going to make for bad law.
I guess the article must have originated in PC World. What I read was "Copying Video to your Handheld,"
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/20/AR2006042000230.html
in the Washington Post online.