iprong.com — On The Tonight Show, actor Ben Affleck revealed that he used his video iPod to watch the Original Superman Series, unavaiable through iTunes. He may have acquired DVDs of the series and "ripped" them into iPod-compatible format but the movie studios' claim that the act of ripping a legally purchased DVD into a computer is a violation of the law
Sep 7, 2006 View in Crawl 4
bonkedSep 7, 2006
Wrong - by the letter of the law, it is a federal crime to bypass a copy protection mechanism. DVDs are protected by such a mechanism, in order to transfer the DVD to the iPod one MUST bypass the protection scheme.The blog points out the flaw in the DMCA - and how hypocritical it is that Ben wasn't arrested by the FBI as Dmitry Sklyarov was for showing how weak the encryption was in Adobe eBooks.Ben went on national television and admitted to breaking a federal law, I want to see him in jail! Dmitry discussed an education computer science paper he had worked on.<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Sklyarov">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Sklyarov</a>
karmiktranceSep 7, 2006
I completely agree.. Who gives a s**t, really? Sad its at 699 diggs already.
funkytacoSep 7, 2006
Which would be worse: being sued by the MPAA or getting robbed on catching a fly ball hit into the bleachers, which would have prevented an out for the Boston team, like Ben Affleck was, then booed and heckled?
atomic1fireSep 7, 2006
does that mean hes ripping himself off
bonkedSep 8, 2006
This really shouldn't be dugg down - he was answering a post I had made, he just didn't hit reply and it was timely.
Closed AccountSep 8, 2006
Heavens to Betsy!
gwolfSep 8, 2006
Ben Affleck builds his own computers; I am impressed, it?s not like he has to he just likes to. A fellow geek, his stock just went up with me. It?s a shame he has to get all this grief for his inadvertent honesty. The MPAA and the film industry go too far with this. I wonder whether people?s ability to copy movies and use them how they like has caused more movie sales or would people have balked at the prices and not bothered. I am not talking about high volume piracy but just ordinary people who buy a movie and modify it to use on another device, PSP, IPOD and so on. Does the film industry really think people would willingly pay for the same movie two or three times? I think they have a grossly inflated opinion of the quality of their work.
Closed AccountSep 8, 2006
"Capturing from VHS is usually legal, but not always. It depends on the VHS tape. A lot of newer ones (as new as a VHS tape can be) come with a sub-aural tone"That doesn't matter; it's still analog. The DMCA covers DIGITAL encryption and protection, not analog.
Closed AccountSep 8, 2006
<a class="user" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBvJpIVOptQ">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBvJpIVOptQ</a>ben affleck sexually harrasses this girl
Closed AccountSep 9, 2006
Ok how about this What if he went to Canada where ripping a DVD I don't think is actually illegal then he put it on his iPod since the act of owning isn't illegal couldn't you claim that about any ripped dvds you have? because as long as you don't go around the copy protection in a country that has that law then you haven't technaly broken that law? it's retarded it's like the reverse of a radar dector, I mean you can legaly buy a radar detector(at least here you can) but it's illegal to use it. but for dvds it's illegal to rip them but it's legal to actually pocess and watch them.
Closed AccountSep 9, 2006
Some of these posts ("You're not ADMITTING to copying a disc, are you? You're just speaking hypothetically...etc.") make me want to beat the posters absolutely senseless,or perhaps engage in some 1940's Popeye style ass-kicking...
dadaozeiMar 13, 2009
I use this DVD to iPod Converter to convert DVD for my iPod, it works well!<a class="user" href="http://www.convertdvdtoipod.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.convertdvdtoipod.org/</a>
Closed AccountApr 23, 2011
Dodgy Affleck is Jack the DVD Ripper