MPAA: MAKING A SINGLE BACKUP COPY OF A DVD IS ILLEGAL
Underscoring meet how discover of contact the Motion Picture Association of USA is with its consumer base, the MPAA has uttered discover regarding a buyer’s (lack of) rights in making a azygos patronage double of a DVD. The interpret came in salutation to a discourse upraised bu U.S. District Judge Marilyn Patel, who during the RealDVD case, asked the MPAA if whether or not it believes it’s jural for consumers to attain patronage copies of wrongfully purchased DVDs for individualized use.
"Not for the purposes low the DMCA," said Bart Williams, an professional for the MPAA. "One double is a ravishment of the DMCA."
And technically, he’s right, at small in cost of circumventing papers mechanisms to attain said copy. But what’s startling most the interpret is that the MPAA has traditionally hid behindhand the danger of accumulation code robbery and the resulting forfeited income in activity the DMCA, but ostensibly you’re no meliorate than pirates for acquire if you attain a azygos patronage double of a DVD you already paying for.
"We conceive the vendee has that correct to play a DVD as some nowadays as they want," Don Scott, one of RealDVD’s attorneys, told Patel. "We conceive he also has the correct to attain a copy, this clean use copy."
So do we, Scott.
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