On Jan 22, 2006, at 6:35 PM, Allen Brewer wrote:
2. Doing so is illegal. Copying a DVD that you have bought is illegal. I'm sure that lil statement will get the howler monkeys going so lets clarify. You have the right to make a backup of media that you have bought. However if that disc is copy protected/ encrypted, which a commerical movie dvd is, then the part where you bypass said copy protection to extract the data, THAT part is illegal and is a felony.
I don't know about howls... The want-to-be fascist, religious and corporate powers that currently own the US government at this time have made this illegal on paper, certainly. That's not debatable. And it is unlikely to change. I"m no sure if the original poster was even in the US or not, though.
It is telling ( I think) that tools to let you USE your fair use rights remain available, with their own, public domain names and brand-name advertising, freeware and commercial solutions alike. This is not software you have to download from l33t sites of any sort.
With the control in the US Supreme Court that the fundamentalist and corporate interests will shortly have this could change quickly. But for now, it's not a challenge that they have made, for whatever reason.
This sounds like a political interpretation but really it's just a summary of the publicly-stated positions of all involved. I don't like the extensions and implications of this, certainly, especially going forward, but that could just be me :)
Anyway until they start bribing your kids to report you for putting your personally-purchased DVDs onto your laptop for your own viewing, there are not consequences likely for doing so.
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