{"id":14905,"date":"2005-10-14T21:55:49","date_gmt":"2005-10-15T01:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.publicknowledge.org\/uncategorized\/the-new-ipod-and-consumer-expectations\/"},"modified":"2005-10-14T21:55:49","modified_gmt":"2005-10-15T01:55:49","slug":"the-new-ipod-and-consumer-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/the-new-ipod-and-consumer-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"The New iPod and Consumer Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a cool new device Apple<\/a> has made us all lust over! Again!<\/strong> Not only is it thinner than the previous generation of iPods, it sports a wider color screen capable of playing back video. And you can download select TV shows from the iTunes Music Store<\/a>. Now on the way to work, I can watch Lost<\/a> and find all the clues that I’ve missed the night before.<\/p>\n

Of course, the video playback is not limited to the TV shows, there are pleanty of video podcasts<\/a> (FYI: that’s an iTunes link) for you to select from—I usually watch Rocketboom<\/a> while eating lunch at my desk. And then there’s all the videos I already own.<\/p>\n

I have a few movies on VHS that I could do a an “A-to-D” conversion on—digitally record to my computer using an EyeTV<\/a> or just my regular firewire camcorder as a pass-thru. It’d take some time, but it could be done.<\/p>\n

And of course, my DVD collection. Since those are just discs with digital video files on them. It should be easy enough to down-convert them on my computer to the proper resolution for the iPod. And it is pretty easy<\/a>. Sheesh, it only took two days for a tutorial to be put on a very popular blog.<\/p>\n

But, unlike all the video content (both analog and digital) listed before, it’s illegal to digitally copy this DVD video content to your new iPod<\/strong>. We all know why<\/a>. Sure, you could copy the video from the analog out, then copy it back digitally, then down-rez it. A “D-to-A-to-D” conversion, if you will.<\/p>\n

Does anyone else think this is absurd? You own the content. You own the device. And you’re not doing anything illegal with the content under traditional copyright law.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, some other folks do to<\/a>. One in particular is U.S. Representative Rick Boucher<\/a>, of Virginia. This is not hot news, but he’s got a bill<\/a> in Congress that essentially says if you’re not doing it for otherwise infringing purposes, it’s not illegal to conduct fair use.<\/p>\n

If it were to pass, you wouldn’t be breaking the law while watching your DVDs on your iPod, on the way to work. Makes a lot of sense, doesn’t it? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What a cool new device Apple<\/a> has made us all lust over! Again!<\/strong> Not only is it thinner than the previous generation of iPods, it sports a wider color screen capable of playing back video. And you can download select TV shows from the iTunes Music Store<\/a>. Now on the way to work, I can watch Lost<\/a> and find all the clues that I’ve missed the night before.<\/p>\n

Of course, the video playback is not limited to the TV shows, there are pleanty of video podcasts<\/a> (FYI: that’s an iTunes link) for you to select from—I usually watch Rocketboom<\/a> while eating lunch at my desk. And then there’s all the videos I already own.<\/p>\n

I have a few movies on VHS that I could do a an “A-to-D” conversion on—digitally record to my computer using an EyeTV<\/a> or just my regular firewire camcorder as a pass-thru. It’d take some time, but it could be done.<\/p>\n

And of course, my DVD collection. Since those are just discs with digital video files on them. It should be easy enough to down-convert them on my computer to the proper resolution for the iPod. And it is pretty easy<\/a>. Sheesh, it only took two days for a tutorial to be put on a very popular blog.<\/p>\n

But, unlike all the video content (both analog and digital) listed before, it’s illegal to digitally copy this DVD video content to your new iPod<\/strong>. We all know why<\/a>. Sure, you could copy the video from the analog out, then copy it back digitally, then down-rez it. A “D-to-A-to-D” conversion, if you will.<\/p>\n

Does anyone else think this is absurd? You own the content. You own the device. And you’re not doing anything illegal with the content under traditional copyright law.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, some other folks do to<\/a>. One in particular is U.S. Representative Rick Boucher<\/a>, of Virginia. This is not hot news, but he’s got a bill<\/a> in Congress that essentially says if you’re not doing it for otherwise infringing purposes, it’s not illegal to conduct fair use.<\/p>\n

If it were to pass, you wouldn’t be breaking the law while watching your DVDs on your iPod, on the way to work. Makes a lot of sense, doesn’t it? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insights"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe New iPod and Consumer Expectations - Public Knowledge<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Public Knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. 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