In response to a recent lawsuit, here reported, an amendment to the current copy protection license has been proposed by the DVD Copy Control Associations. It would ban any form of copying, including fair use back-ups of original discs, and would only allow playback of content from the original source.
The lawsuit was related to Kaleidescape, a DVD home server company, that successfully thwarted the DVD Copy Control Associations efforts to stop their form of distribution. The new amendment was basically designed to put Kaleidescape out of business and could easily run afoul of federal and state laws prohibiting anticompetitive alliances.
The unfortunate fact is that virtually none of Kaleidescape's customers were violating the spirit of the rules as they purchased all of their DVDs before they were transferred to the server and the server was very secure, operating solely for the owner's benefit.
