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MPAA Sues DVD Chip Manufacturers

Posted by michael on from the customers'-best-interests-in-mind dept.

WhatAmIDoingHere writes "The Motion Picture Association of America has sued two chip manufacturing companies for selling integrated circuits to manufacturers that produce non-approved DVD players."

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  1. It's OK by Mz6 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's still pretty easy to make DVD player region-free. I mean, it's not illegal to modify your own hardware now is it? Is this where they are going now?

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    1. Re:It's OK by whyde · · Score: 4, Funny

      Two consenting same-sex adults enter a windowless room (no A/C) with a Linux box, smartcard programmer, DVD burner, XBOX mod chip, copy of DeCSS, a DSL connection, a black Sharpie marker, and a copy of LOTR:ROTK.

      They exit the room four hours later, flushed and smiling.

      How many different crimes have been committed?

  2. looks like a Slashdot editor wrote this article by morton2002 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh dear god, how could a Reuters article make such a stupid mistake?

    "...which claims its members loose billions of dollars annually to copyright piracy".

    *Sigh*

  3. Everybody always remember by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Guns: Sacred and necessary

    Devices which inadvertently allow consumers to exercise fair use rights: Dangerous and damaging

  4. Re:No it's not by harmless_mammal · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, and if you live in Amerika as I do, then you are guilty of publishing information that describes how to bypass copy-protection measures. I believe that is also prohibited.

  5. My First 50 dates by lateralus_1024 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can I sue them for My First 50 Dates?

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  6. A more accurate headline by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    MPAA Sues DVD Chip Manufacturers For Making Things People Want To Buy

  7. Re:Lawyers Profit! by Your+Pal+Dave · · Score: 5, Funny
    Why? If you're going to sell at a loss, why sell at all?


    They plan to make it up in volume.
  8. Just like Ye Goode Olde Dayes by serutan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thanks to Intellectual Property, the feudal system lives!

    Hunt thou not in the King's Forest, knave! Double not thy clicks, nor singly if for commerce they be. Scribe ye not the holy GIF format, nor the code of Linux employ within thine enterprise, lest ye suffer sorely in combat with the royal tort attorneys!

  9. Re:Just annoyances anyway... by Gannoc · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think your point was: you can use a pair of bolt cutters to get into your own shed you lost the key to. Just as you should be able to use a program to decrypt and remove the MacroVision bit from DVDs you own.

    Incorrect, commie.

    According to the RIAA, you should simply buy a new shed.