On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 09:21 -0700, Aaron Burt wrote: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 09:32:11PM -0700, Michael C. Robinson wrote: > > Star Trek Voyager ended in like 2001 or so. Star Trek Deep Space Nine > <snip> > > Answered on PLUG-Talk. > > Please do try to be a better citizen, > Aaron > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug Excuse you. This is not a PLUG-talk topic considering that using a Linux based server as the media server is a PLUG topic. I'm trying to ask what is legal as far as recording of live television and long term archival of those recordings. I'm also trying to ask, what is there to stop me legally from copying copyrighted commercial DVDs that I have purchased where I intend to air the copy privately from my Linux based server? If there are legal verses illegal ways to go about this, I want to know about that. Do TiVOs and the like not keep the recording long term? How about services like Comcast's On Demand? If I were to publish a HOWTO on recording live television with a Linux based server or converting DVDs/Blu Rays to a file for private viewing, would that be illegal? The technical question of can it be done seems to be answered, the problem is what about the legal side of this? From a technical standpoint, there is very little difference from a digital recording on a hard disk verses one on a Blu Ray disc. As far as the don't talk about this comments, if this isn't ever talked about publicly it definitely won't be legal and people not doing it will make it even less so.
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