MPAA suggests teachers videotape TVs instead of ripping DVDs. Seriously.

by Nilay Patel, posted May 7th 2009 at 2:46PM

So the Copyright Office is currently in the middle reviewing proposed exceptions to the DMCA, and one of the proposals on the table would allow teachers and students to rip DVDs and edit them for use in the classroom. Open and shut, right? Not if you're the MPAA and gearing up to litigate the legality of ripping -- it's trying to convince the rulemaking committee that videotaping a flatscreen is an acceptable alternative. Seriously. It's hard to say if we've ever seen an organization make a more tone-deaf, flailing argument than this. 

Take a good look, kids. This is what an industry looks like right before it dies. Video after the break.

[Via BoingBoing]