Legally, they sit on a shelf. It’s an extremely rare moment I’m sufficiently motivated to go find one, pull out the disc I have in and find a place to put it, stick the DVD in my drive, and sit through advertisements, anti-piracy PSAs, and FBI warnings.

Were I to engage in illegal behavior, I might have my movie collection digitized in the form of two gigabyte rips visually imperceptible from the original DVD. I might be able to play any of these instantly by double-clicking a thumbnail, whether I was at my computer, connected to my TV, or connected to a TV at a friends’ house, or on an airplane. I might not have to sit through all the previously mentioned junk stuck to the front of the video. Of course, all of this is purely theoretical since no such exemption has been approved.

In a completely unrelated matter, I would appreciate your forgiveness for not harboring the utmost respect toward the Copyright Office’s exemption process. I would also like to mention that the code protecting DVDs was broken in the first place because some guy just wanted to watch his movies on his laptop…