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Ripping DVDs to Handhelds = Fair Use?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday March 9, 2004 @03:25AM from the i-friggin-hope-so dept.

An anonymous reader sent us a "CNET column highlights DVD to Pocket PC, a US$25 software package that allows users to rip DVDs for viewing on Windows handhelds. The story details the hoops that Amsterdam-based Makayama is jumping through to comply with "fair use" as [narrowly] defined by U.S. law.

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Re:PWN3D ON TEH SPOKE. I'M RICK JAMES, BITCH. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-09 03:41 · Score: -1, Offtopic

"Bitch, come over here and have sex with Charlie Murphy."

"Then he took us inside and served us pancakes."

"Go ahead ask me a question - FiF!"
Re:PWN3D ON TEH SPOKE. I'M RICK JAMES, BITCH. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-09 03:55 · Score: -1, Offtopic

U R TEH 0R1G1NAL S00P3R FR33K.