Re: [Cdn-DMCA] DVD cartel examples sought

From: Russell McOrmond <russell _-at-_ flora.ca>
To: No DMCA in Canada <canada-dmca-opponents (at) flora.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 22:05:11 -0400 (EDT)

 
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Michael Richardson wrote:

>   okay, so what you need to do is actually purchase one and try and play it.

  Sounds worth the money - get a copy of one of the CSS-free DVD's from
http://www.videolan.org/freedvd.html  in order to test the DVD playing
software on my computer.

  Then get a copy of "Anti-Trust" that won't legally play.  Yes, I want
the irony of the content to be a movie about the dangers of a ruthless
media-monopoly that attacks Open Source developers physically-or-legally.
Just glad these guys are just suing us and having the US-DOJ threatening
jail-time if we set foot on US soil, not murdering us.


>   I have one that came with the package of Rice Krispies. I don't know what
> is on it. I nominally have a DVD player in my notebook, but I've never tried
> a DVD in it.

  I had thus far not spent the time to get any DVD's as I was hoping the
legal problems could get solved first.   Guess we should get some DVD's
as a way to push this forward.


  Also a question for the group on strategy: 


  MCR questioned my strategy of copying Industry Canada with my reply from
this group.  My thinking was that if we were understood to be a larger
number of people with some research put into this issue, we'd be harder to
ignore.  MCR suggested that maybe sending strategy to IC makes this look
political rather than a competition case.

  Other thoughts?  I guess I felt that bureaucrats would not want to have
attention drawn to them and thus the warning about the petition before it
was actually created.

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