WALL-E, a Bill C-61 copyright criminal. (Spolier ALERT)
by T. Colin Dodd
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But the really sad part, the part none of those young kids in the theatre knew, the truly despicable part, is that poor Wall-E would be deemed a dirty copyright criminal under Canada’s new copyright law. Bill C-61 would criminalize much of Wally’s behavior in the film. Now that’s something to really cry about!
Here’s the evidence against WALL-E documented in the movie (**SPOILER WARNING**):
1. WALL-E records audio from his favorite movie, Hello Dolly, putting in onto his own digital recorder (bypassing the macrovision DRM on the tape). A COPYRIGHT CRIME UNDER C-61
2. WALL-E archives the audio, he doesn’t merely time-shift it. He listens repeatedly! A COPYRIGHT CRIME UNDER C-61
3. WALL-E shares his DRM-broken music with his friend, another robot named EVE. A COPYRIGHT CRIME UNDER C-61
4. WALL-E watches Hello Dolly on multiple evenings, on the screen of an iPod. Hello Dolly is not available through the iTunes store, therefore he broke the videocassette DRM when he platform shifted it. A COPYRIGHT CRIME UNDER C-61
July 8th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
The next step will be the unilateral ban on the WALL-E movie and merch due to the depiction of illegal activities.
July 10th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Wall-E totally looks like the robot from “Short Circuit”… minus the cheesy 80’s style of course
July 23rd, 2008 at 8:22 pm
[…] Ayer, le robe tiempo al tiempo y me fui con mis dos amores a disfrutar una película que se la puede describir como genial, que una animación de un robot pueda transmitir tanto sentimiento es algo sensacional me he quedado enamorado de esta película. Pero el post era solo para mostrar dos cosas completamente distintas. La primera, la escena que más me gusta sobre todo por el “ingenio” de wall-e vs mo; y la segunda (SPOILER), el link donde se explica por que wall-e está infringiendo el famoso DRM, que también es algo re-genial. […]