Good luck with that. After trying to figure out how to rip a DVD to AVI
last week (our own video), I learned that there're plenty of free
solutions out there.

~P

Perian Sully
Collections Information Manager
Web Programs Strategist
The Magnes
Berkeley, CA

-----Original Message-----
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Amalyah Keshet [akeshet at imj.org.il]
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 4:02 AM
To: 'mcn-l at mcn.edu'
Subject: [MCN-L] IP SIG: Copying DVDs to personal computer --
RealNetworks sued by movie studios

Movie industry's shortsighted fight

Bob Barr

Tuesday, March 10, 2009
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/09/ED051680HG.D
TL

...
" There is now unfolding in a federal court in San Francisco a lawsuit
in which several major Hollywood movie studios are suing RealNetworks -
a relatively small but successful company that develops and markets
Internet communications technology - in an effort to prevent the company
from selling a software product that simply enables consumers to copy
their DVDs to their personal computers. If the studios are successful in
this Goliath-against-David legal action, Edison's lesson in hard work
will have been effectively reduced to, "genius is one percent
inspiration, 99 percent permission." ...
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