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Because copyright laws are continously being changed to provide copyright owners with ever broadening and restricting definitions of what exactly you can do with the movies, music, and electronics that you plunked your money down, today we all celebrate Fair Use Day!

Its easy to sit back and say that these laws are helping artists, engineers, and creators be safe from the evil pirates (arr), but the truth is that you should be able to exercise the same priviledges with modern technology that you did with your old Betamax, which means that if a damn good episode of Golden Girls is coming on, man, you should be able to fire up that DVR recorder and save it without restrictions.  You should be able to pop that episode into any TV set (even at your friend Lenny’s house), and watch it.

Can’t do that with Tivo.  Can’t do that with your cable DVR.  But the thing is, they fool you into thinking that because its digital, or because its the latest and greatest, that giving up these things is the price of having the cutting edge.

Bollocks.

So, the options are suck it up and let Big Media have their way with you, put on your eyepatch and risk getting a call from Blondie at the lawyer’s office, or to make some noise and let those losers you elected know that you’re tired of taking it from Big Media.

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