[Infowarrior] - Has the MPAA lost it?

[Richard Forno]

(rhetorical question, don't waste keystrokes answering!! --rf)

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/07/mpaa-to-teachers-don.html

The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Fred von Lohmann sez, "Hearings  
for the DMCA triennial rulemaking are going on this week in DC, where  
the educational community is asking for an exemption to rip DVDs to  
take clips for classroom use. The MPAA responded with a video showing  
how to camcord (!) movies from a flat screen monitor, arguing that  
educators and students should do this instead of ripping DVDs. In the  
words of media literacy researcher Martine Courant Rife, that's like  
typing up a quote from a book, taking it outside, chiseling the words  
in a rock, photographing the rock, scanning the photo, and running OCR  
on it. And for what?"