Gah, my head asplode. The DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) is suing a company called Kaleidescape that makes a high-end DVD jukebox for home movies, despite the fact that the DVD CCA has already sold Kaleidescape a license. It’s insane, but let me try to explain it a bit.
Kaleidescape makes a DVD jukebox that copies movies bit-for-bit to an array of hard drives. This isn’t a cheap bit of hardware—we’re talking like $27k for a low-end version that stores 160 movies. In fact, a large portion of the cost is actually the licenses that Kaleidescape has to pay to various copyright cartels to legally provide the service. So these aren’t devices that are purchased by basement-dwelling nerd pirates who are trying to beat the system. These are for people who loves movies who happen to be flush with cash, built by a Canadian company that has gone out of its way to work around our arcane and barbed copyright legislation. And then they get sued.
My hatred is piercing the veils of time to burn through my own mother’s womb. Why do we even bother having a culture?
Hollywood allies sue DVD jukebox maker [CNet via LIVEdigitally]
