Comments on: Maybe the Jury Didn't Like the Songs http://www.slaw.ca/2009/06/26/maybe-the-jury-didnt-like-the-songs/ Canada's online legal magazine Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:45:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kevlar Gorilla http://www.slaw.ca/2009/06/26/maybe-the-jury-didnt-like-the-songs/comment-page-1/#comment-705853 Kevlar Gorilla Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:22:04 +0000 http://www.slaw.ca/?p=9766#comment-705853 I'm getting informed and really like what I'm hearing here. To sum up: Reject the DMCA, give a reasonable approach regarding DRM and other copy-protection (giving freedom in special cases, like broken / obsolete / unnecessarily restrictive DRM), better enforcement for real criminals (ie: folks who sell DvDs of Camcorded theatre rips), and assigning appropriate penalties (if any) to the non-commercial infringer so that they are not sued out of house and home, just to be made an example of. Watch this and be informed: http://blip.tv/file/864351/ I'm getting informed and really like what I'm hearing here.

To sum up:

Reject the DMCA, give a reasonable approach regarding DRM and other copy-protection (giving freedom in special cases, like broken / obsolete / unnecessarily restrictive DRM), better enforcement for real criminals (ie: folks who sell DvDs of Camcorded theatre rips), and assigning appropriate penalties (if any) to the non-commercial infringer so that they are not sued out of house and home, just to be made an example of.

Watch this and be informed:

http://blip.tv/file/864351/

]]> By: Graham Hurlburt http://www.slaw.ca/2009/06/26/maybe-the-jury-didnt-like-the-songs/comment-page-1/#comment-705575 Graham Hurlburt Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:55:32 +0000 http://www.slaw.ca/?p=9766#comment-705575 So file sharing is in the same realm as smoking marijuana! It's not legal but not really illegal either. Rock on! So file sharing is in the same realm as smoking marijuana! It's not legal but not really illegal either. Rock on!

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