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Re:75-year-old soybean farmer sees Monsanto lawsuit reach U.... by pedrocr on Sunday February 10, 2013 @03:57AM (#5195859)
Devil's advocate: even if you buy your DVD at Amazon you still cannot show it for $2 each to 50 people at your home or make copies for profit.

Is that actually the case? Last time I sawy anything about this the publishers were trying to have it both ways, saying that on the one hand what you owned wasn't the disk it was a license to the content so you couldn't just do whatever you wanted with it, but if you tried to use that to say "well then I can rip the DVD and copy it somewhere else" you'd get an argument about only owning that specific format.

Re:75-year-old soybean farmer sees Monsanto lawsuit reach U.... by DrJokepu on Sunday February 10, 2013 @04:24AM (#5195905)
Yes it is. You need a license for public performances of copyrighted works; in America this is governed by Title 17 of the United States Code.