The MPAA studios are at it again, snatching away our fair use rights, so they can sell them back to us for an "additional fee."
In a lawsuit filed in federal court in New York, Paramount Pictures v. Load 'N Go Video, the MPAA member companies have sued a small business for loading DVDs onto personal media players (e.g., iPod Video) on behalf of customers.
Source: EFF: DeepLinks
What Load 'N' Go Video did was to sell customers a digital media player (e.g. a video iPod) and DVDs. The company would then rip the DVD onto the player for you and then ship both player and DVDs to you. So, you own the player and you own the DVDs and they put *your* DVDs onto *your* player for you, a sort of value added service if you like. Okay, no problem there surely.
Ah but hold on, you didn't account for the muppet mentality of the MPAA did you; oh no! Because you see, dear reader, when *your* DVDs were ripped to *your* player then the encryption was broken and that is against the DMCA.
If you want *your* DVDs on *your* player then you have to purchase another copy in that format! Yeah right! This is almost like state sponsored racketeering.