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Movie Studios Sue Load 'N Go Over iPod DVD Service

Friday, November 17th, 2006 at 4:35 PM - by

MPAA member companies filed a lawsuit against Load 'N Go Video for loading movies onto iPods, claiming the company is violating the DMCA and violating copyright laws. The basis for the suit, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is that Load 'N Go is circumventing the copy protection built in to DVD movie discs.

Load 'N Go sells customers iPod pre-loaded with the movies they choose, and charges for both the media player and DVDs. Once the ripping process is finished, the iPod and DVD movie discs are shipped to the customer - Load 'N Go does not keep the original discs.

The case may not be going well for Load 'N Go. As of Friday afternoon, the company Web site was unavailable, and TMO was unable to locate any representatives for comment.

A PDF version of the lawsuit that was filed in federal court in New York is available at the EFF Web site.

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vasic said:

member since 09 Aug 2005 with 279 posts, unranked, send him a message or view his profile

Fri Nov 17, 2006 7:24 pm

The spirit of this service is as clean as it gets. They buy the DVDs, put them on iPods, then ship everything to the buyer. All they charge for is to put the movies into the iPod format. Much like those services that do the same thing with music CDs. Unfortunately, the most restrictive DMCA clause makes this service illegal. Until the supreme court declares that particular part of the DMCA unconstitutional (unlikely), movie studios can sue away.

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burrito said:

member since 07 Aug 2005 with 177 posts, unranked, send him a message or view his profile

Sat Nov 18, 2006 4:59 am

wouldn't it be great if the "import" button in itunes was there for dvds as well..?

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JulesLt said:

member since 06 Jul 2005 with 136 posts, unranked, send him a message or view his profile

Sat Nov 18, 2006 12:50 pm

While everyone was bashing France over the iPod thing, this situation is precisely what the 'interoperability' amendment to their equivalent of the DMCA was supposed to ensure. It's early days yet - very few people want to convert DVDs to watch on the go - but this could be the wake up call people need towards what the DMCA was actually about (They were able to freely do what they wanted with CDs - any the Sony rootkit fiasco has put paid to that).

People tend to be blindly supportive of laws they don't understand until it hits their daily life.

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Dave said:

member since 11 Jun 2001 with 227 posts, TMO Staff, send him a message or view his profile

Sun Nov 19, 2006 3:20 pm

I hope that someone steps in and funds this to the point where the Supreme Court is able to rule on it. Hopefully it doesn't get quashed early on!

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