Say Goodbye to Radar Detectors?

The campus of the I / T need to pay close attention to the entertainment companies launched the court battle to prevent digital copying in my youth, I was a fast driver. I think about China, the central and western regions in the 85-95 mph in different vehicles, including my own, the two favorites: 1, 1965 red, four corvair and a yellow (black vinyl top) 1967 Camaro. Now the latest neurological research shows that Chinas adult decision-making faculties have not yet developed (that is, apparently occurred in about 25 years old, I can truly Flash back to a lot of examples, which should have killed me.) I have my excuses I can admit its mistake and my method.

I was shocked, but when the first radar detector, because I can never understand how a tool, it is obviously designed only to evade law enforcement, can be legitimate. Even in the time, the summer of 2001, I avoided an Ohio State Highway Patrol driving under the surveillance booths hiding for an hour and a half, I refuse to have any radar detector. I would like to make digital copies of things, though. . .

Later, when I attended a Michigan Law School, I learned that the law allowing such a technology, but I have never really accept it. Now, film and music industries, along with other entertainment industry, big time sports, money is pouring in to Capitol Hill, in a concerted effort to pass legislation, it may be - as an unintended consequence - I llegalization radar detectors.

You see, a line of Supreme Court decisions, for the most part representatives of the case, Sony v. Universal Studios (1984), also known as the Betamax case That as long as substantial commercial non-infringing uses from the technical potential, and then manufacturers to justify the use of responsibility to consumers to their products.

in other in other words, Xerox Corporation is not responsible for the counterfeit dollars if you make their copiers and Sony is not liable if you use their tapes and video recorders so that illegal copies of Film. (In a similar analogy a little different line cases, the radar detector manufacturers precisely because there are at least one claim that security element drivers to use them (this is a stretch to me, but men The law can be strange child).


the recent case of what is, of course, share digital information, can now include things, or even remotely considered entertainment is so Much easier, because the broadband connection, we have the Internet and in response to many different easy and cheap to be in the digital reproduction and dissemination of information.

Course, we all know that people make copies of VHS Tape for friends or sold in the 1980s, but it takes a great deal of time and money investment, to do so. Now, almost anyone who is not homeless (or even the homeless in a local library) can copy Tens of thousands of copies of a lot of things, and all of their places.

Therefore, the peer-to-peer networks and digital reproduction is the goal, with all the entertainment industry may be, even if they attack Blunt from the recent 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in MGM v. Grokster, under such circumstances has to appeal to U.S. Supreme Court, and later this month, we will all listen to both sides of the summary of our local NPR Stations.