MPAA Sues Company For Selling Pre-Loaded iPods

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."

Re:"experimental threading One Two Three Four"

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

It's disabled because the MPAA is sueing Slashdot for copyright infringement [imdb.com].

Re:Illegal maybe, but copyright violation?

[DRAGONWEEZEL]

Exactly.

Neither senario should be "wrong."
Good thing for me, I believe in Moral Relativity. If it's wrong, but not really wrong.

Guns don't kill people.
People w/ decrypted movies that portray guns kill people.

Don't let the terrorists watch the Matrix on their IPOD!

Re:Free clue for the MPAA

[TheRaven64]

It seems like a logical progression from suing their customers...

Re:Free clue for the MPAA

[Hinhule]

4. Sue yourself?

Re:'Nothing to see here'

[Anonymous Coward]

>The use of a digital audio recorder by a consumer for non-commercial purposes is pretected.

You're Goddamned right it's pretected! I wouldn't have it any other way, and I'm sure I speak for everyone else here when I say that!

Hell, even if it weren't pretected, then it SHOULD be, dammit.

There ought to be a CLEAR law, ensuring pretection, for EVERYONE! We need to eliminate pretection greyosity, for certitudinousness, from now, into infinitis!

That's what I think, anyway.

'course, it's past time for my meds, so, I could be wrong.

The last sentence is a joke - I took my meds on time - otherwise I couldn't spell "certidudinousness" correctly :)

Re:'Nothing to see here'

[bill_mcgonigle]

By your logic, someone that takes a picture of the Statue of Liberty is stealing it.

No, they're a terrorist. Try to keep up here. :)

Re:difference of products

[cfulmer]

> Rather tired of being treated like an idiot.

Your post didn't help. Now I know how Yoda would sound after a Meth hit.

Re:point of copyright

[mrchaotica]

the Sony Bono Copyright Act

Man, Sony's been so evil lately it's even invading our subconsciousness!

Re:'Nothing to see here'

[dangitman]

Since when did sanity matter, when it comes to the law? We are talking legal arguments here, not rational ones.

Re:'Nothing to see here'

[2short]

"If the copyright holders (or their agent(s), etc) decide that you can only use that copy in one specific way .... it would be illegal for you to do it."

They can "decide" that the moon is made of green cheese if they like, but it doesn't make it so.