Windows Phone Thoughts: Bill Would Allow Copying of Music, Movies

All hail the DMCR! What's that you might ask? It's a new bill that might actually allow you to use the music and videos you paid for in whatever way you wish (as long as it's for personal use). But will this bill come to pass in the US? I have my doubts - I think the RIAA will gather their army of lawyers together and send them to Congress in a mad rush of paperwork and jabbber jowls. It will get ugly.

"The Digital Media Consumer Rights Acts, reintroduced Tuesday by Representative Rick Boucher, a Virginia Democrat, and three other lawmakers, would trump the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's anticircumvention provisions, allowing consumers to break copy controls in order to do such things as make personal copies of songs or movies from discs they already own. If the consumer's action has a substantial legitimate use, it falls under the fair use rights protected in the Boucher bill, instead of constituting a copyright violation, Boucher said."

(as a side note, I think I'm using Microsoft products too much lately - when I saw the title of that article, I thought "Bill" was referring to Bill Gates :lol: )