Posts tagged E Ticket
When RealNetworks Settled on DVD Copying, We All Lost
Mar 9th
Glenn Fleishman at 4:33 AM March 9, 2010
Glenn Fleishman is a Seattle journalist who started one of the first Web-hosting companies in 1994, worked for Amazon in 96-97, and then decided he wanted a life. He writes for Publicola, The Economist, and TidBITS, among other publications.
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RealNetworks just screwed us all by settling lawsuits in which it might have lost–but which might also have given some new life to fair use for digital media.
The post-RealDVD world means that unless there’s a major change to the law surrounding copy protection, there will never be a legal way to perform legal acts of copying or shifting protected movies, music, and games.
Take it from a guy who has a special E Ticket. The major movie studios can never sue me nor four other individuals ever for a variety of media-moving activities that you and 300 million other Americans could be subject to. It’s like a superpower. More on how we got this pass later.
