tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2030611194704207262.post1830569908046598709..comments2021-10-24T23:12:51.646-05:00Comments on Decay-Proof Record Scroll: S.978: What it is, what it isn't (culled from DevART Journal)Crystanubishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00389586250831045241noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2030611194704207262.post-87107043184008488962011-07-23T03:07:12.713-05:002011-07-23T03:07:12.713-05:00"An episode of Escape to the Movies with Movi..."An episode of Escape to the Movies with MovieBob showing clips of a film accompanied by a voiceover giving a brief synopsis and review of the film is far different than someone simply uploading Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon wholesale and unedited to a torrent for anyone to download for free."<br /><br />You know that, and I know that; but the RIAA and MPAA have so often shown contempt for actual fair use (i.e., long enshrined in law and precedent) that I'm simply not willing to assume that <i>they</i> know that. Even if they were, I'm definitely not willing to assume that they or their successors will be willing to recognize that difference after ten or twenty years have passed.<br /><br />Furthermore, even though the higher courts have fairly consistently told them to fuck off -- eventually -- these organizations and their members have acquired a disturbing facility with the use of pre-trial subpoenas and injunctions from lower courts to ruin a defendant's life and livelihood for years (often going unremanded and unfined for so doing) in order to extort settlements and terrify others.<br /><br />Why should we give them one more tool with which to convince a judge to issue such terrible things? The harm they allege to be suffering doesn't really seem to compare.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com