Comments on: “RealDVDs, surreal law suits”

By: Keith Dickinson

Keith Dickinson — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:42:32 +0000

It seriously annoys me that the media companies can make it illegal to make a duplicate DVD of my movies to play while the commercial one stays on the shelf were the DVD player (or little hands/fingers) can’t damage it.

There needs to be some extension of the fare use that says if you have a legal copy in your possession, you can convert it to whatever format you want to for your own personal use. Of course, just try to convince someone in congress to pass that little modification.

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:58:00 +0000

CloneCD has been for sale for years. It’s also supposed to clone DVDs. Here’s the ad.

Backup your music, data or navigation CDs with the famous CloneCD – regardless if they are copy protected or not!

http://www.slysoft.com/en/clonecd.html

By: Bill Poser

Bill Poser — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:23:18 +0000

Oops. Of course I meant “Rule 11 sanctions”. Need more coffee.

By: Bill Poser

Bill Poser — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:22:47 +0000

A request for anonymity by the lawyers should be interpreted by the court as a request for section 11 sanctions.

By: Orval

Orval — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:38:01 +0000

Check out BoingBoing’s coverage: http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/30/mpaa-spokeslawyers-i.html. It is very surreal: the first coverage in the press depicted RealNetworks’ software as DRM breaking ripping software. It is nothing of the sort, while it does indeed rip a DVD to hard disk, it then applies its own crappy DRM.

But the weirdest bit is the MPAA lawyers, in a press conference, asked that their names not be used. And the media complied.

Lawyers who don’t want their names in the press?