Interesting Article

[jmattax]

There is quite an interesting article at http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/100-years-of-big-content-fearing-technologyin-its-own-words.ars it's interesting to see how little the rhetoric has

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[houdini_cs]

I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the
American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.
-- Jack Valenti, Testimony to the House of Representatives, 1982
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I wasn't opposed to the VCR.
-- Jack Valenti, 2003
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[Copyright should last] forever less one day
-- Jack Valenti
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I found the most convincing part to be the working stiffs, the guys who
have a modest home and kids who go to public schools. They make $75,000 to
$100,000 a year. That's not much to live on. I don't have to tell you
that.
-- Jack Valenti, Entertainment Weekly, 18/04/2003
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If you buy a DVD you have a copy. If you want a backup copy you buy
another one.
-- Jack Valenti
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In the digital world, we don't need back-ups, because a digital copy never
wears out. It is timeless.
-- Jack Valenti
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Today, it's illegal to copy a videocassette. No one has a fair use to copy
a videocassette.
-- Jack Valenti