Iron Man 2 DVD Copy Protection

     So today, on a whim, I bought the "Iron Man 2" DVD - I hadn't seen the film but thought I'd like it & it was on sale  *shrug*.  As I do with any DVD I purchase, I popped it into my computer to convert it to a format I can easily watch on my iPhone, or stream from a computer to my TV.  The computer buzzed a bit, and spat out a heap of garbage but no video files.  Ughhh.  I flipped the case over and saw the tiny but dreaded "This DVD is copy protected!" symbol.
     It's completely immoral that they're allowed to sell crippled non-standard discs like this as DVD's.  If they want to try and force their waste-my-time copy protection crud down consumers throats then it needs to be clearly labelled.  I don't mean subtle either - I'm talking an industry agreed on standard strip at least 1cm high running across the front cover of the DVD.  Something which states clearly that it's a non-standard DVD and may not provide the functionality expected of a DVD.
     I'm _very_ against pirating.  I think people deserve to paid for their creative efforts.  However it's insane that I need to jump through a bunch of hoops to watch a movie that I've bought, when I could pirate it and have a copy of the movie that just works.  Copy protection (DRM) doesn't stop movies being pirated, it just annoys those that have legitimate copies.  Idiots.
     Paramount (the studio for this particular DVD) seriously needs to rethink their consumer strategy as their current one is "irritating" people that would otherwise support them.  Yeah, they suck.