Copy-protected DVDs containing public domain data?

[Deja Q]

Yup, korporate amerika has been doing this and the EFF wants the vile DMCA changed to keep PD DVDs unprotected.

http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/20030508_eff_dmca_reply_pr.php


EFF will testify in support of the four exemptions it has proposed. EFF asked the LoC to create DMCA exemptions for four types of digital media:

1) music on copy-protected CDs where malfunctioning copy- protection restrictions prevent playback

2) movies on DVDs whose region coding restrictions prevent playback on U.S. players

3) movies on DVDs which prevent skipping of commercials

4) movies in the public domain released on DVD



Yeah, it's from May 14th - I wonder what has happened since. And PD movies shouldn't be on copy-protected anything. Damn corporate fascists and other bastrards who support the DMCA...