Is burning DVDs against the law?

People may often ask questions like what kind of DVD can be burned, what is the law regarding burning of DVDs or is there any punishment the law will provide if I burn a copyright protected DVD? Answers to the above questions can be summarised as follows;

Burning commercial DVD and copy protected DVDs are extremely controversial process. Commercial DVDs are protected as per copy right laws and the burning of such copy protected DVDs are considered as illegal.

You can burn as many copies of DVD you purchased for the personal use as per the policy of the U.S. copyright law. But you are not authorised to take a copy of copy right protected Movie or an audio song.

Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) passed by US Congress on October 12th 1998 clearly states that the cracking of copy protection encrypted commercial DVDs without the permission of the owner is deliberated as a crime and contrary to the law. This law does provide exemption to the non-profit libraries, archives and education institutions under certain circumstances.

There are several DVD burning software products available in the market that supports consumers to burn different kind of DVDs– DVD+R, DVD+R DL, DVD+RW or DVD+RW DL. These DVD burning programs enables you to burn Movies, data, songs, including commercial DVDs.

DVD Copy 6 plus, My DVD, DVD Cloner, Nero Burning ROM are some of the popular DVD burning application packages. You can also download free trial versions of DVD burning software from internet. While downloading the original version make sure that these applications are legal and not breaking any copyright protection laws.

If anybody illegally burn copy right protected Commercial DVDs, the law has provision to penalise them on guilty of breaking CSS protection and illegal copying; the offender may sentenced for a period not less than 5 years as per the severity of offence.

However you can take copies of commercial DVD for archiving purpose with the permission of the author. In any case distribution and recreation of CSS protected DVDs is against the intellectual property rights. The CSS protected DVD author can file litigation on the court against the illegal copying and distribution of files.

A famous ruling on this regards was enacted by United States District Court for the Northern District of California, the Judge Susan Illston in the case 321 Studios v. Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Inc., Feb 19, 2004, where the judge ordered an injection order against 321 studio. The injection order was released on the very ground that 321 studio used copyrighted materials of the other party to make backup DVD software DVD X copy.

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Different UK bingo website operators provide the options to play free 90 ball bingo games. The free 90 ball bingo game websites are usually designed pleasingly to meet the requirements of their players. The colored cards, chat rooms, multiple game options, auto play, zoom in, etc are some of the major features of the free 90 ball bingo websites.

The websites that facilitate to play free 90 ball bingo games presents huge prize money to the players. Several websites offer free 90 ball bingo game matches on weekly basis, rather than monthly games.

Promotional campaigns are used by free 90 ball bingo websites to attract more customers to their websites. You can also avail bonus points, cash prizes, coupons etc while joining to these sites.

Free 90 ball bingo online games are very easy and well accepted by the younger generations in UK. You can also make use of the optional features best card sorting and best card highlighting to make the play convenient to you.

You can collect the details like schedule of play, amount of prize money, time of play etc from the website where you are going to play with. You can buy free 90 ball bingo games tickets on a strip from the bingo operators. At the time of play, you can mark the number called by the operator .Since it is a 90 ball bingo, 90 is the biggest number to callout.

You can obtain prize of free 90 ball bingo game in 3 stages– one line, two lines, and in full house. Each of the patterns has definite prize money. The first player who win the money become the winner of the game. If there are multiple winners then the prize money will be shared among them.

Thousands of players are playing live in various free 90 ball bingo websites. The prizes sponsored to the winners may differ from money to the consumable items in each website.

Random number generator (RNG) is used by the callers to announce the calls. You can utilize the facility of chat during the play of free 90 ball bingo games also. You should follow chat etiquette while chatting with others.

Do you believe a particular 90 ball bingo cards increases Bingo Odds?

Do you hear anything about the Hot and Cold number theory of lottery websites in North America? The lottery websites in North America often published frequency of numbers drawn through various media. The hot-number theorist’s believes that the numbers which are frequently drawn will continue to be drawn on the next calls also; and they select numbers based on their hot theories. On the contrary the cold-number theorists believe that certain numbers are “due” to come up.

Many bingo UK lovers believe in the same hot and cold theory while selecting their 90 ball bingo cards. Obviously they are on the wrong way. The callers made calls on 90 ball bingo cards during the play using random number generators.

The regular bingo players observe the most drawn numbers for each play. They identifies the number of times the same numbers drawn by the caller, more than 80 percentages of people considered these numbers are the hot bingo numbers; Such players always selects the 90 ball bingo cards on the basis of their observation.

Since bingo is a gambling game, nobody can say surely as a particular bingo card increases the bingo odds.

90 ball bingo cards have strips and it contains three rows (horizontal lines) and nine columns (vertical lines). 5 numbers and 4 empty spaces can identify in each row; that means a total of 15 numbers will be arranged in one card.

Any numbers from 1-90 are arranged in a particular order in each columns. Numbers from 1-9 are included in the first column of the 90 ball bingo cards. The second column involves numbers from 10-19. Similar numbering will carry on to the other columns also and the last column covers numbers from 80-90.

90 Ball Bingo cards can be purchased from the authorized bingo operators in the form of books. There are single or multiple 90 Ball Bingo cards—Single books and Multiple books. Single book contains ten 90 ball bingo cards. 6 single books are involved in a multiple book 90 ball bingo cards. Only expert bingo players can play multiple bingo cards.

The players can obtain 90 ball bingo cards from the online website operators by depositing the cost of the cards. 90 ball bingo cards are very cheap in rate and the average price may vary from $.05 to $.25, on the basis websites where the player is going to play the game.

The UK bingo online websites provides free 90 ball bingo cards to the players as a promotional offer. The players can utilize these cards to play free bingo games.

Welcome HRM & LR Batch of 2008-2010

A Hearty welcome to the First Year Students of HRM & LR Batch of 2008-2010.

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PMIR (now HRM & LR) alumni enjoy an enviable position in the industry today. Having carved a niche for themselves, TISS PMIR (now HRM & LR) alumni is daily establishing new trends and declaring many a terms in the industry.

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List of Recruiter

Ranbaxy

RPG Group

Accenture

Asian Paints

AstraZeneca

Bennett and Coleman

BPCL

Cadburys

Citibank

Coca Cola India

Colgate-Palmolive

Countrywide Financial Corporation

CSOL, TISS

Deutsche Bank

Dr Reddy's Lab

Ernst & Young

Fidelity

FirstSource

Google

Grow Talent

Hewitt Associates

Honeywell

Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages

Hindustan Unilever Ltd.

HSBC

IBM

ICICI Bank

ICICI Prudential Life Insurance

Intel Corporation

ITC

Jhonson & Jhonson

JP Morgan Chase

KPMG

Lehman Brothers

Mahindra & Mahindra

Marico

Mercer Human Resource Consulting

Microsoft

Motorola

Nestle

Nokia

Novartis

Oracle

Patni Systems

Pepsi

Pfizer

Price Waterhouse Coopers

Proctor & Gamble

SAP Labs

Sasken

Siemens India Limited

Standard Chartered Bank

Sterlite Industries

Taj Group of Hotels

Tata Sons - HRDP

Tata Motors

US Technologies

Wipro

Yahoo!

Admission Process

Selection Procedure for HRMLR Programme

Selection Procedure and Admission

The final selection of a candidate for HRM &LR (formerly PMIR) at TISS,
Mumbai is based on five parameters. These are as follows:

  • Objective Test :

    It includes quantitative, data interpretation, business knowledge and logical reasoning. The
    time allotted is 90 minutes.

    A list of short listed candidates is declared who are selected for the GD and PI. To become
    eligible for GD and PI, a general candidate should secure a minimum combined score of 43 marks
    (35 marks for SCs and STs) in the above two together.

  • Group Discussion :
    It
    aims at assessment of knowledge about contemporary issues in the field and sensitivity to
    social issues, expressed orally in English in a group situation. The time allotted is 20
    minutes.
  • Personal Interview :
    The
    candidate is expected to be acquainted with the program applied for, as questions may be asked
    on the topic during the PI. Questions are also asked regarding a candidate’s professional and
    personal background.
  • Academic Background :

    Marks are awarded to each applicant on the basis of over all percentage of marks secured in
    the Bachelor’s Degree. However, high academic achievement is not the only criterion on which
    the candidate will be selected.

The weight age assigned to the various components vary year by year.
Typically around November the brochure for admission is published and written exams conducted
by January.

This year (2007-’09) batch has 64 students. The intake next year will be
decided by the institute and published in the Application Brochure.

For any further information, please go to www.tiss.edu