Laughing Boy wrote:
] ] A group of media and
] ] technology companies including Microsoft and Walt Disney
] ] have agreed in principle to allow consumers to make legal
] ] backup copies of next-generation video discs and share
] ] their content on portable devices.
] ]
] ] The group, which also includes International Business
] ] Machines, Intel, Matsushita Electric Industrial and Time
] ] Warner's Warner Bros., will not have any technology to
] ] license until the end of the year.
] ]
] ] But the announcement, released late Tuesday, marks a
] ] shift in the way the movie industry has reacted to the
] ] threat of online piracy of its films.
]
] WOW! The industry is FINALLY coming to grips with the whole
] fair use concept and the fact that consumers have a RIGHT to
] legal archival copies of their media. -LB

as to the asserted right to make backup copies, my understanding was that this only applies to software...it would be nice to have some fair use access though...

--Abaddon (posting from my phone no less)

RE: Industry deal set on allowing limited DVD copying