Recordable DVDs New Target of Hollywood

Some lawmakers are introducing a bill that Hollywood is not happy about ? one that would allow consumers to make personal copies of digital entertainment like DVDs to be played on whatever device they want.

Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., author of the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act, says consumers should not always have to worry about being slapped with a lawsuit every time they make a copy of their favorite videos.

The Digital Millenium Copyright Act, which this bill is intended to loosen, says in essence that it is illegal to understand the technology that operates the media you buy. It is, in other words, a bill designed to maintain the role of large "media" companies in the distribution channel for artist's work, in a time when the Internet has rendered the old distribution channels obsolete.

It's not as urgent as some other things... but if you have a chance to tell your representatives about this bill, and that you support it, many engineers will be thankful that their desire to tinker with technology will not put them in jail.

Posted on 2004-05-13 13:55:38.0 by matthew@triggerfinger.org

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