The MPAA Doesn’t Want You Recording That Movie
Posted by Peter on June 9, 2008
The MPAA is at it again. Now they want to prevent consumers from recording HD movies during the time period between when a movie is released in the theaters and it is available on disc. They are petitioning the FCC to change the current restrictions on the use of technologies that restrict home recording.
In a very real sense, it is the studios’ content and they can do with it as they please. As consumers we are also free to not purchase their product. But in this case their ideas seem to do nothing except annoy people. According to the article, they only want to block the recordings during the roughly 2 month period between when a program begins to be available in these other mediums and when it is available on disc.
This is a case where the MPAA is going to generate a huge amount of consumer ire for very little actual benefit.
