MPAA nails Gowell Electronics
p2pnet news view MPAA | DRM:- Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony care, and care deeply, about the artists they represent and the people who buy their music; George W. Bush is/was a stand-up president who’ll be missed by all Americans; the Moon is made of green cheese; and, “worldwide motion picture industry losses total more than $11 billion annually to hard goods piracy, including bootlegging and illegal copying”.
The latter is according to Hollywood’s MPAA, quoted by Dong Ngo in CNet News.
“Personally, I think it’s interesting how MPAA counts the money it doesn’t make as losses,” he says.
No surprises there. Virtually all Hollywood statistics are the products of vivid imaginations on the part of its spinsters.
Under discussion is a permanent injunction against China DVD player maker Gowell Electronics banning it from, “violating any term of the Content Scramble System license agreement,” says the story, going on:
“The lawsuit started in June of 2008 after an MPAA investigation revealed that Gowell was manufacturing and selling DVD players that lacked the appropriate implementation of the CSS license agreement.”
The Hollywood studios are, “third-party beneficiaries of the CSS license and may enforce it against licensees who fail to comply with its terms,” says Ngo, adding:
“I am not so sure if the Chinese company would comply 100 percent with the court order, either. And even if it does, I don’t know what good that would do to general consumers, like you and me.”
And, “The ruling will have no effect, of course, on Gowell DVD players which have already been manufactured and sold, so the current owners of the players may continue to use them, at least under the terms of the current ruling,” says TechBlorge. However, if the DVD manufacturer complies with the terms of the injunction, current owners would not be able to replace the devices once they wear out or break.
Please note that the disks themselves, after they are copied, still contain the Content Scramble System software which make them unusable in CSS-legal DVD players. It is the Gowell player itself which makes it possible to play the still-protected disks by ignoring the CSS software’s commands. Without the Gowell DVD players, or others like them, the copied disks are useless except as coasters.
CNet News – No more pirated DVDs from China…maybe, October 31, 2008
TechBlorge – MPAA wins suit against Chinese DVD player manufacturer, November 1, 2008
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November 4th, 2008 at 12:24 am
ya and my lil solution at faircopyright that would give them from CANADA, USA, and the UK 12 billion a year they turn down.
Now you figure how many net users there are and just nail 5$ on them all.
then you can get tv , movies and games on the net without any more hassle, i detailed how it could even be run, how artists get paid, who is excluded and why, etc.
November 4th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
@ above Im curious as to how that would work, not that I believe in ANOTHER levy but its simply not possible to reimburse EVERY artist on the internet. Unless of course you narrow your definition of artist.