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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. 'Nothing to see here' by s7uar7 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think the MPAA won.

  2. Re:Seems within the law, for better or worse... by MightyYar · · Score: 0, Troll

    I have VERY liberal opinions about what copyright should cover. For instance, I think that copyright should only apply to commercial use - personal use should be completely open. I also think that something like 15 years seems like an appropriate term for copyright.

    That said, this is a company making a copy for a profit... I can't really say that copyright should be changed to allow for this. This company is making a profit off of someone else's intellectual property.

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  3. Re:It's your law, so fix it goddamn! by dugn · · Score: 1, Troll

    What a disappointingly naive response. There's no value this post brings to the discussion. And barring your typo in DMCA, it wasn't the Bush administration that signed DMCA into law.

    If anything, some administration - I don't care who - should reconcile the divide between Fair Use and DMCA once and for all so we all know whether we can rip our own music from copies that we own (even if it takes circumventing copy protection to do so).

    Until that fundamental question is resolved, these John Q. Public vs. RIAA/DMCA/ issues and discussions on /. will continue...

  4. Re:well, yeah by wes33 · · Score: 0, Troll

    but then OP would have nothing to say at all