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MPAA Sues Company For Selling Pre-Loaded iPods

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the services-aren't-allowed-anymore dept.

ColinPL writes, "The MPAA has launched yet another 'defensive attack,' this time on a small business that is pre-loading movie DVDs onto iPods and reselling them. The original DVDs of the movies that are loaded are also given to the customer. The MPAA is claiming that the service Load 'N Go Video offers is completely illegal because ripping a DVD is against the DMCA. The MPAA is also suing the company for copyright violation."

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  1. Double Edged Blade by Tainek · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While i Feel sympathetic for the Company under fire, this is only good news for consumers, when my mother read this she thought it was shocking and is appauled at the DMCA, having not known what it meant before

    Stories in the press like this only hurt the Big bad Companys, by raising awareness

  2. and we see again by User+956 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The MPAA is claiming that the service Load 'N Go Video offers is completely illegal because ripping a DVD is against the DMCA. The MPAA is also suing the company for copyright violation.

    This is essentially the same way they sued mp3.com into the ground, and yet another example of why the DMCA is such a fucking horrible law. There's no damage being done here except to the iron grip the MPAA exerts over movie distribution.

    They have no problem with the idea of selling movies on hard disc, it's just that they don't want competition.

    --
    The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
    1. Re:and we see again by BootNinja · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It's competition because they want to sell you the physical DVD and then sell you a digital copy for your ipod. Most consumers don't know how to rip a cd or dvd, and so would probably buy the digital versions if they weren't offering this service. Therefore, this creates a (percieved) loss of income for the MPAA.

  3. Re:'Nothing to see here' by Feyr · · Score: 5, Insightful

    no i think this is exactly what we need to get this stupid law overturned. this is clearly an infringement on the user's fair use right. no one is "stealing" any content, merely shifting the content from one format to another. the mpaa gets its money, the user gets the content, a third party is making money for the service of shifting it.

  4. Re:'Nothing to see here' by DragonWriter · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ER, the problem is that this isn't within that exception, since its not about the device, but the use to make a recording (which itself doesn't stop it from being protected), but:

    (1) its not an audio or digital music recording, but movies,
    (2) the use to make the recording is not "by a consumer of such a device or medium",
    (3) the use is not "noncommercial".

    Anyone of those three would be enough to make the provision you quote inapplicable.