Dave Johnson, Founder and Principal Author, Seeing the Forest

MPAA vs RealDVD–Why You Care

January 23, 2009 at 12:05 am PT

The Motion Picture Association of America is suing to stop RealPlayer’s (RNWK) RealDVD from being sold to computer owners. RealDVD lets you make backup copies of your movie DVDs onto your computer. It doesn’t let you make new DVDs or share the files from your computer with others–it just lets you keep for yourself a backup. MPAA says this means computer users “steal” movies.

Why do you care? This affects you because it is another case of big corporations using their ability to influence our government to gain financial advantages that cost us money and convenience.

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