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Circuit City Ripping DVDs for Users

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the this-won't-last-long dept.

Grooves writes "Circuit City is offering a DVD transfer service that's sure to enrage the MPAA. For $10 for 1 DVD or $30 for 5, Circuit City will violate the DMCA and rip commercial DVDs for users to put on their mobile players. From the article: 'This should be a viable market. Software and services are losing out to draconian digital rights management philosophies and anti-consumer technologies aimed at increasing revenues stemming from double-dipping--what I call the industry's penchant for charging twice for the same thing.' They note that fair use backups of DVDs have not been tested in court because all of the attention is focused on the circumvention software itself." Update: 08/04 22:40 GMT by Z : Acererak writes "Red Herring reports that Circuit City isn't offering any DVD-to-DVD copying scheme. The Slashdotted sign was an isolated screwup."

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  1. Re:Best Buy not the best anymore by Colonel+Blimp · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I hate Best Buy and their constant nagging about buying warranties.

    I bought a cheap assed $40 boom box, and the guy wanted to sell me a warrantee on it for $25!

    Of course I only bought the boom box for my beach vacation, and took it back when I got home.

  2. Re:Best Buy not the best anymore by eric76 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I quit buying at Circuit City before I made my first purchase from the nitwits.

    This was back when few, if any, computers were sold with CD players already installed. If you wanted one, you bought it separately and installed it yourself.

    I needed one for my computer and went to Circuit City to buy one. The salesman I was dealing with was brand new and was being trained by his boss who was standing there listening.

    I noticed that the CD player packaging only listed Windows 95 on the package and so I told the salesman that I would bring it back if it didn't work with Windows NT. His boss immediately jumped in and said that they would only take it back if it wouldn't run on Windows 95 and that whether or not it would run on Windows NT was immaterial.

    So I left, never to return, and went to another shop and bought the same exact CD player. It worked fine.

    At the time, I was looking for a good quality stereo system to replace my old one and had one picked out at Circuit City. After the Circuit City made their bullshit policies clear, I went elsewhere to buy a new stereo, too.