The MPAA wishes to lock the DVD market

The Motion Picture Association of America has started lawsuits against Sigma design and Media Tek. Both companies are manufacturing microchips able to decode the protection of DVD and allow the user to play it even once the DVD is "out of date".
Obviously, the MPAA plans to obtain the distribution of that kind of chip, to control their sales, and prevent some manufacturers from implementing it in their unlockable DVD-players.
PS: For all the people who haven't choose what kind of career they want to embrace, become a lawyer!! They are the only one to win whatever the outcome of the trial is... [trans.: at least, in France.]