[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:
\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nJV: 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....
\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHPR: Even if breaking the encryption is for a legitimate purpose,\r\nto make a back-up copy?
\r\n\r\nJV: 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.
\r\n\r\nThe 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?
\r\n\r\nToday, 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.
\r\n\r\nI 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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