Zediva countersues MPAA

I was always kind of wondering why someone hasn't done this and here it is. I hope they win if what they're doing is within the bounds of the law or rather within reason. I want this type of service to be a reality, but at the same time, it's gonna suck for those brick and mortar video store workers.

A rental is a rental assuming that each of the DVDs that are being streamed are purchased and no more than the number purchased are being streamed, otherwise they would need a license, right? Because they are making copies and distributing them without permission. They would have to prove that in court.

Originally posted by KSib:

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I was always kind of wondering why someone hasn't done this and here it is. I hope they win if what they're doing is within the bounds of the law or rather within reason. I want this type of service to be a reality, but at the same time, it's gonna suck for those brick and mortar video store workers.

A rental is a rental assuming that each of the DVDs that are being streamed are purchased and no more than the number purchased are being streamed, otherwise they would need a license, right? Because they are making copies and distributing them without permission. They would have to prove that in court.

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But doing it over the internet is exactly what makes it streaming and digital copy - the latter because once it's downloaded by the software, at some point the copy of the movie does exist on the customer's computer's hard drive, and all MPAA needs to do is to demonstrate it. The license on the regular DVD is exactly for playing it in your own living room, and strictly speaking, even when you stream it to another room within your own home, it's already a copyright violation, and if one day MPAA decided to go after the enablers of this, it would most likely win.