MPAA Says Teachers Should Camcord For Fair Use 286
unlametheweak recommends an Ars Technica piece detailing the convoluted lengths to which the MPAA will go in order to keep anybody from ripping a DVD, ever. The organization showed a film to the US Copyright Office, in the triennial hearing to spell out exemptions to the DMCA, giving instructions for how a teacher could use a camcorder to record a low-quality clip of a DVD for educational use — even though such a purpose is solidly established in law as fair use. "Never mind that this solution results in video of questionable quality and requires teachers to learn even more tech in order to get the job done. It also requires schools (or, given the way most schools are run, the teachers themselves) to incur additional costs to purchase camcorders and videotapes if they don't have them already. Add in the extra time involved, and this 'solution' is a laughably convoluted alternative to simply ripping a clip from a DVD."
Camcorder? Yeah right. (Score:5, Funny)
well that explains it... (Score:5, Funny)
Now I know what that guy was doing behind me while I was watching Star Trek yesterday. He was just making a clip for fair use.
This just in: (Score:5, Funny)
According to the MPAA, it is a-okay to use a camcorder to record a movie!
Kind of like... (Score:5, Funny)
BTW, like the MPAA, wild boars are vicious.
Photocopying (Score:4, Funny)
Given the technology skills most my teachers have had I can see them trying to put the dvd inside a photocopier and hoping for the best. Your average teacher couldn't rip a DVD, and why bother when you can just get any notable clip you want off youtube. Go fight with Google MPAA.
The MPAA went on to say that (Score:5, Funny)
Teachers may also make partial copies of a CD for education purposes by recording to a vinyl record and playing it back on a phonograph.
In related news (Score:5, Funny)
ThePirateBay.org registers the domain TheTeacherBay.org
MPAA Graciousness and Generosity (Score:5, Funny)
One would expect the MPAA to suggest teachers use pantomime since this would please both themselves and the RIAA.
I can't wait (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ridiculous, but somewhat scary. . . (Score:5, Funny)
Don't worry, you'll learn.
Re:not surprised. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Camcorder? Yeah right. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It doesn't matter what the MPAA says (Score:1, Funny)
I Agree completely, in fact I can remember Instances in School were a lot of classes Social studies, Science . . .
I see in fact can Remember no English clases.
Ha (Score:4, Funny)
If NEA is as powerful as many around here think it is, the recording industry is going down.
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The MPAA is right (Score:5, Funny)
We can't have teachers ripping DVD-quality clips all willy-nilly. Why, if someone got ahold of enough teachers, he could put all their clips together and re-create the original movie! In digital DVD quality! You pirates will surely roast in hell for even considering it.
Re:MPAA Graciousness and Generosity (Score:2, Funny)
The American Mime Association has been notified of your suggestion and is considering legal action.
Re:"ripping", the word is visceral, "copy" is not (Score:5, Funny)
Who is that, a French porn star? The phrase you are looking for is je ne sais quoi.
Re:MPAA Graciousness and Generosity (Score:5, Funny)
They're not going to say anything.
Re:Kind of like... (Score:4, Funny)
As someone who lives in a region with many wild boars, I have to say:
If you ever manage to behave that badly that a wild boar feels enclined to attack you, I would trust you neither with a knife able to kill a boar, nor with a gun.
Re:Good! (Score:4, Funny)
So don't download this song... </wierd al>
Re:Kind of like... (Score:5, Funny)
We only use knifes when we take dogs. Its pretty easy to kill a boar with a knife, and I have never been "tusked" badly. Its also cheaper. When my Dad was hunting they used their fists.
Boars have fists in your area ? Where are you hunting, Tchernobyl ?
Re:Kind of like... (Score:2, Funny)
Spear hunting for wild boar -- now THERE's a real sport.
Re:This just in: (Score:3, Funny)
At my college the professors just play the DVD directly, projected onto a large screen. MPAA be damned.
Re:"ripping", the word is visceral, "copy" is not (Score:3, Funny)
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You can't tell me that the notoriety of Jack the Ripper isn't in some part due to his name.
Agree. "Elvis the Ripper" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
Re:Kind of like... (Score:4, Funny)
>Boars have fists in your area ? Where are you hunting, Tchernobyl ?
Wall Street.
Re:Kind of like... (Score:2, Funny)
Boar market?
Re:Kind of like... (Score:5, Funny)
There are several varieties of "wild boar" (at least in N. America). Some are viscous...
God help us all
Works for me! (Score:3, Funny)
Okay, I'm pretty sure a movie theater screen was involved, rather than a television set, but the basic mechanism is essentially the same.
I was only pursuing an education, honest! It's not fair - Obi-Wan trained Anakin Skywalker, but he wouldn't train me. I have to get my force training somewhere, don't I?
It's an acronym (Score:3, Funny)
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