Monday, November 27, 2006

Just because you buy a DVD to watch at home doesn't give you the right to invite friends over to watch it too.

I honestly cannot believe this. I hope I find out it's a hoax.

http://www.bbspot.com/News/2006/11/home-theater-regulations.html

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Not a surprise....the days of showing kids a movie at school are long gone...the only way legally to do it is to show the movie in short segments, like 7 minutes or something like that. I think that even affects movies in public domain. I'd like to know how they plan to enforce this home theatre thing...asinine as it is, I can see how it is going to get a lot of legitimacy in a courtroom.

Mr. Fitz said...

It turns out that it is a true statement.

As far as educational use goes, I heard a report this week that gives the ok for educational use.

There are stipulations, but at least the MPAA won't haul your ass off to jail.