Save Betamax call-in day - TODAY september 14th

primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' BoopinDetroit, MI Icrontian
edited September 2004 in Internet & Media
http://forums.maddoktor2.com/index.php?showtopic=1262&st=0&#entry7999

The betamax decision was basically the court ruling that allows you to own a VCR, tape recorder, MP3 player, etc. right now.

Media giants are trying to quash this.

Savebetamax has organized a national call in day (today, september 14th, 2004) to pester legislators to make sure they understand that this is not the people's will.

Sign up if you care. :)

Comments

  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    I signed up.

    I think "Save Betamax" is a stupid name for the concept, because I personally remember reading a fairly recent news article about Sony's decision to stop making Betamax - I read your thread title and though that people were organizing a call-in to Sony to keep Betamax in production.

    This is a much more useful goal, however.

    //edit:
    OK - I got some information from them. For some reason, two of the people on the list are in the House, and the Senate contact they sent me is not even from Ohio. The INDUCE act is before the Senate, not the House, and the House people seem to be getting rather annoyed at all the calls coming in talking about a Senate bill. It would be much more logical if signing up on the site gave us the contact information for our own state's Senators, as well as the time to call them.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    I think they're expecting the INDUCE act to pass the senate, and so I think we're "seeding" congress to prepare them for this.... THat's my take.

    It's not about actual betamax, it's about the act that made betamax legal - it was called the "Betamax Act" for short, and it makes owning technology that is capable of producing copies of media legal.
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited September 2004
    You do realize, that this could include computers under the act. As they can record audio and video.

    Oh, also, no more video phones, no more music tones in your phone (the free ones), no more digital or analoge audio tape recorders, no means on how to back up data on your computer (CD-RW/DVD-RW/Zip drives/external hard drives ect.)
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    On one side, we have the record industry that doesn't want us to record things.

    On the other side, the consumer electronics industry wants us to buy their recorders and media to record on.

    I wonder what Sony thinks about this, being on both sides of the line?

    I can't imagine personal recorders being outlawed. Can you imagine the outrage? It wouldn't last long.
  • CBCB Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ Der Millionendorf- Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    You cannot make illegal a commodity that presently every-one takes for granted. It doesn't work...

    Want evidence? Read the 18th and 21st ammendments to our constitution, ya?
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited September 2004
    CBDroege wrote:
    You cannot make illegal a commodity that presently every-one takes for granted. It doesn't work...

    Want evidence? Read the 18th and 21st ammendments to our constitution, ya?

    That would be the amendments to ban and then unban liquor in the 30's?
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited September 2004
    :beer::thumbsup:
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