] The DMCA is bad law. There are all kinds
] of fair use scenarios that it screws with. This is just one,
] backed by a particularly powerful constituancy.

Sure there are. How much has that constituancy of black shirted punks who back that "Linux" thing affected our legal rights in the last 6 years of so since DeCSS? The silence of their successes is deafening.

The point, my dear Decius, is this is legal precedence to do I want with the content of a DVD that I purchased, without paying the studios. The glass is half full to me on this new law.

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