MPAA suggests teachers videotape TVs instead of ripping DVDs. Seriously.

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So the Copyright Office is currently in the middle reviewing proposed exceptions to the DMCA, and one of the proposals on the table would allow teachers and students to rip DVDs and edit them for use in the classroom. Open and shut, right? Not if you’re the MPAA and gearing up to litigate the legality of ripping – it’s trying to convince the rulemaking committee that videotaping a flatscreen is an acceptable alternative. Seriously. It’s hard to say if we’ve ever seen an organization make a more tone-deaf, flailing argument than this.

Take a good look, kids. This is what an industry looks like right before it dies. Video after the break.

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Do you think the people demonstrating how to do this feel like idiots? I know I would. I love how the commentator says, like it’s some new thing, “you can put one clip after another on the camera by starting and stopping after each one”.

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Are they fucking serial?

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Is that a boob?

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are they for serious?

they could be a NYS poster… :picard:

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