Legal Roms - along these lines

[SlikStik-Christian]

While perusing the internet last night I read this article http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030724.html
Just swap out the word CD's for boards and bango legal roms, whadaya think?

Jerry Mascari
SLIKSTIK

[TheTick]

Except fair-use laws that predated DMCA set a limit of 3 backup copies.

Looks like another useless 3 page discussion, that will result in yet another locked thread.

Of course DMCA makes devices bybassing copy protection essentially illegal, so the until system facilitating the backup and redistribution is, by default, in violation.

[RedSquirrel]

reading all of that made my head hurt. seriously  

[AlanS17]

That's too much concentration for a friday afternoon. I'm already home from work.  

Now... back to banging my head against the side of my machine until things start to make sense inside again.

[TheTick]

What I think is sad... is that a portion of donations and public funding does to this guy, so he can write one of those stupid articles every couple of weeks.  I don't think that's what was intended when Public Broadcasting was started.

[grafixmonkey]

you're right about the DMCA copyright bypass issue.  He would have to do that.  I think the movie industry already used that to kill "fair use" for people wanting to recompress their DVDs to their hard drives.  Plus, how would they possibly interpret owning 1/60,000 of a CD as "owning the original" and therefore being legally entitled to make a backup of it (which they're not anyway?)

I think maybe the lawyer friends he consulted were these guys:
http://marvin3m.com/arcade/zelda.htm
http://marvin3m.com/arcade/dorald.htm
http://www.pinrepair.com/arcade/swami1.jpg
http://marvin3m.com/arcade/mgrandm.htm
http://marvin3m.com/arcade/donkey.htm

[TheTick]

Hey, I know Marvin. That's the arcade we used to go to... before the cops started sitting out there every night back in the mid 90's. Its in a good neighborhood and attracts all the arab drug dealers.

Maybe they can let you download your share of each CD, you know a couple seconds worth. Would probably be less than what BestBuy already lets you download.

Didn't MP3.com try something like this? They bought hundreds of CDs, and if their software could prove you had your own at one point in time, than you can login at stream it to wherever you want. I think the RIAA argued something along the lines that they were not granted a license to archive or reproduce the contents of the CDs.