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MPAA's suggestion on how to avoid breaking DVD protection
Quote:Teachers don't need to rip DVDs to get clips for classroom use—they should just use a camcorder to record the DVD playing on a TV screen! So says the MPAA in a video it showed to the US Copyright Office in an attempt to argue that nobody should be ripping DVDs, even for educational use.

The Motion Picture Association of America has put itself back into the limelight as the DMCA exemptions hearings wraps up, thanks to a video circulating online suggesting teachers should use camcorders to record video instead of ripping DVD clips for classroom use. Though this suggestion has been floating around for some time now, the MPAA's attempt to push such a convoluted (and more costly) process into the classroom only highlights the industry's desperation to keep people away from DVD ripping—even when what they're doing falls into the category of fair use.

The video, posted on Vimeo, is actually of MPAA execs showing another video (meant to instruct teachers) to the US Copyright Office. The MPAA was showing the video as part of the triennial DMCA exemptions review, when all sides of the copyright debate whip out as much ammo as they can in an attempt to get the law extended to allow certain behaviors (or disallow, as the case may be) for the next three years.

In the video, the MPAA suggests that teachers who want to use movie clips as part of their curricula should use a camcorder to record the movie off of a TV set, and that this is an acceptable way to use video clips without breaking a DVD's copyright protections.

Nevermind 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.

Granted, teachers who want to rip DVD clips may still have to learn a bit in order to create a finished product, but that process still involves less equipment and fewer steps, not to mention a better-quality video. And, let's not forget that US copyright law already offers exemptions to teachers who want to use copyrighted clips for educational use—they shouldn't have to jump through hoops to get those same clips just because the MPAA insists on continuing to fight the already lost battle to keep people from ripping DVDs.
- Source: [arstechnica.com]
10/05/2009 12:16 AM
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fudge that.

they want to make us do that since they can't stop piracy?

ridiculous
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lolol.

fail.

I'll rip DVDs if I want to, lol.

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I find teachers these days don't do either. 95% of them don't know how to rip DVDs anyway.

Most of the time, they just get the whole DVD, and fast forward to the bit needed.
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Most of them use VHS
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Quote:the MPAA suggests that teachers who want to use movie clips as part of their curricula should use a camcorder to record the movie off of a TV set

so are theatre cams legal too  LMAO

double you tee eff that's a wierd article..

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just like some guy sitting in office, then thinking by their asses..

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maybe they still uses betamax, lol

good im not in us cause MPAA sucks big time

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Assassinator Wrote:I find teachers these days don't do either. 95% of them don't know how to rip DVDs anyway.

Most of the time, they just get the whole DVD, and fast forward to the bit needed.

Some teachers (~90%) in my college didn't know how to connect the camcorder/dvd player/projector/any other output device to the screen... :/

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