please, never try and get a job for the mpaa!
logically your argument might make sense, but the mpaa (and riaa for that matter) haven't exactly built reputations of being bastions of reason. myself, I think copying a DVD you own to your laptop is legitimate fair use. I can, however, see how (1) you present isn't something netflix would like - it opens the door to renting nonstop, and just copying each DVD to a hard drive to watch later. though I guess if it means you return it sooner, it's better for netflix...then again they have no way to force you to delete the image, and we all know how much it bothers the mpaa/riaa when they don't have total power over things. if anything I'd say checkout movielink which someone posted earlier.
Originally Posted by KathyMoore
Which is worse?
(1) me copying a Netflix-rented DVD to my laptop hard
drive, watch in inflight once, and deleteing the DVD
image.
(2) me having a party with 20 friends... everybody
watching it on the projection screen in my living room.
In scenario (1), they make money by charging me the
monthly fee. In scenario (2), they potentiall loose the 19
other rental/sales of the DVDs after I let my friends watch
it together. Yet (1) is technically illegal, while (2) is
perfectly legal right now.
I think I'm begging to get the logic of the MPAA/RIAA
groups. If I work for them, I'd try to get the Congress to
pass a law banning scenario (2)....
