Comments on: Ripping DVDs may never be the same again

Attorney Eric J. Sinrod explains the wider import of a Hollywood lawsuit aimed at preventing the ripping of DVDs to portable video players.

[PhillyBoy919]

The MPAA Needs to be Stopped!

This is getting completely out-of-hand. The MPAA and RIAA are stepping over the line and interfering with their customer's legal use of their very own products. If I buy a movie on DVD I should be able to use that movie's content for my own personal enjoyment, however I see fit. I don't see how the MPAA suing a company who is legally selling their content and simply making it more convenient for the consumer, is going to be a win for them. I don't claim to know the answer to this problem, but the MPAA and RIAA need to figure out a way to make this content legally portable beyond a shadow of a doubt. Consumers need flexibility, not frivolous lawsuits against their interests.

Every single DVD I own (about 50) is ripped to my iPod. All of the DVDs were purchased new. I have never distributed or shared any of these files with anyone. I defy anybody to tell me how this is harmful in any way. I legally paid for it but instead of watching it from a DVD player I'm watching it from an iPod. What they are objecting to is the added value that format flexibility brings. That is a disgrace.

[bw94382]

They'll wake up eventually.

Since the MPAA and the RIAA declared war on their customers, have sales gone up or down? The bottom line is that people don't like the way they're being treated by these organizations, and they're going elsewhere. They're going to keep going elsewhere until these organizations start treating people like customers instead of enemies.

[ReCluyse]

Poorly Written

This article irks me because it follows a pattern a 7th grade student would be expected to use. You don't need to define terms like "DVD." This is an electronics website, bud.

[shakenbaker]

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