... have alienated large segments of the research community" (EFF). It is not just e-book translator programs that are under the microscope either. CD rippers and DVD decoders provide a way around digital guards protecting software. Such programs allow files to be transferred to and manipulated by a computer. In the past, these ... This act stops hundreds of legitimate usages. What if an audio track needed to be spliced or edited? What if a video clip was needed from a DVD? Wouldn't these actions qualify as fair use? It seems now that these once fair uses have been taken away completely. The ...

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... out the artist getting one penny of royalty. Some CD manufactures are encrypting their products to protect their data. Another type of piracy of intellectual DVD (digital versatile/video disc) ripping. A DVD is not a totally the same as a CD, it takes a special drive that reads the different layers on the disc, and transfers the ... data a faster speed. Besides a different drive, the disc space capacity of a DVD is almost ten times the size of the average CD. With these changes and a high encryption format a person is not able to copy a DVD on to a CD, but you can rip the movie. To rip ...

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... out the artist getting one penny of royalty. Some CD manufactures are encrypting their products to protect their data. Another type of piracy of intellectual DVD (digital versatile/video disc) ripping. A DVD is not a totally the same as a CD, it takes a special drive that reads the different layers on the disc, and transfers the ... data a faster speed. Besides a different drive, the disc space capacity of a DVD is almost ten times the size of the average CD. With these changes and a high encryption format a person is not able to copy a DVD on to a CD, but you can rip the movie. To rip ...

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... case of technology, it's actually hindering it. A CD contains a lot of information, and is the perfect media for storage. In more advanced storage media is the Digital Video Disc, or DVD, which is much more versatile, and contains 26 times the storage capacity of a CD, and 11500 times more (about 17 gigabytes) than a standard floppy disk. Moreover, a CD and ... in the short history of computers, but because of the shadier uses, several companies are developing copy protection schemes for its software. Macrovision, for instance, is producing hardware for the DVD player that will make the...

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... and more albums now come with incentives to purchase the CD instead of getting it pirated. Incentives include items such as a bonus DVD, which can contain an artist's videos or concert footage. Movie Studios will release their movies on DVD with a magnitude of extra features, which usually cannot be seen if only the movie was pirated. Games on the computer are incorporating ... . Movie studios release movies for critics to view, called screeners which are seen frequently in the "warez" scene. Most of the time, the only thing that distinguishes a screener from a retail DVD is a message wh...

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... property rights concept and know little knowledge about it, which results in the barriers of export. For example, in 2002, due to the lack of consciousness of intellectual property, China's DVD exporter faced multiple litigations in the United State and started to pay estimated 380 million dollars to those groups with right, which destroy China ... 's DVD export industry. In addition, Shen emphasizes that China only undertakes the processing work, but cannot master the core technologies, which causes the Chinese exports face with more intellectual property rights ... ...

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... programming president Michael Lombardo has also stated 'I probably shouldn't be saying this, but [piracy] is a compliment of sorts the demand is there. And [piracy] certainly didn't negatively impact the DVD sales [of Game of Thrones]' (Paul). This evidence suggests that people wish to "try before they buy"; even if people do illegally download or stream content, they will ... ...

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