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New Harvard Political Review interviews Jack Valenti

[link|http://www.hpronline.org/news/347207.html?mkey=628413|Valenti's\r\nViews: The MPAA president and former LBJ aide opens up on a range of\r\ntopics]. Gems like this:

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JV: What is fair use? Fair use is not a law. There's nothing\r\nin law.

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I suppose [link|http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html|17\r\nUSC 107], and the rest of the United States Code, isn't law\r\nthen....

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HPR: Even if breaking the encryption is for a legitimate purpose,\r\nto make a back-up copy?

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JV: But you've already got a DVD. It lasts forever. It never wears\r\nout. In the digital world, we don't need back-ups, because a\r\ndigital copy never wears out. It is timeless.

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The minute that you allow people to break an encryption, you lose\r\nall security. If anyone can do it under the rubric of fair use,\r\nhow can we protect the artists?

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Today, it's illegal to copy a videocassette. No one has a fair use\r\nto copy a videocassette. If you lose it, you get another one, and\r\nthere's nothing wrong with that. That's what people have been\r\ndoing for generations.

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I suppose the concept of [link|http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/31/2241236&mode=thread&tid=97|DVD\r\nrot] hasn't occured to him.

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I don't know where to start when your oponent doesn't find argument\r\nbased on facts relevant, but a 12-guage seems reasonable.

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Karsten M. Self [link|mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com|kmself@ix.netcom.com]\r\n
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What part of "gestalt" don't you understand?\r\n
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New think his box of chocolates has run out
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]

questions, help? [link|mailto:pappas@catholic.org|email pappas at catholic.org]
New FBOG
No one has a fair use to copy a videocassette. If you lose it, you get another one, and there's nothing wrong with that.
So I'm alowed to go buy the same product over and over and over? Why, how generous!
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     Harvard Political Review interviews Jack Valenti - (kmself) - (2)
         think his box of chocolates has run out -NT - (boxley)
         FBOG - (drewk)

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