Ian_F;195664 Wrote: > I presume therefore that this is not illegal (or at least you won't be > prosecuted), as long as you own the original and do not re-distribute > it etc etc. But the same is not true for DVD videos. > Why's that?
Don't be so sure you won't be prosecuted. RIAA insists there is no such thing as fair use. It is unlikely they would win a case against someone at the moment, but if they buy some more votes, they could make it for-sure-illegal to media-shift even for personal use. For DVD's, there is plenty of software that will copy a DVD. The only "gotcha" is CSS (not related to HTML's style sheets), it is a "content scrambling system" that sort of encrypts DVD's. The MPAA pretends that it is designed to stop piracy: which is not true. It is designed to allow them to sell movies at different pricepoints in different regions. It does nothing at all to prevent copying. Real "pirate" operations (those that churn out completely legit looking pressed discs) aren't slowed down at all by CSS, and could even release "region locked" discs if they wanted to. MPAA has managed to argue that this makes it protected under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, which makes it illegal to try to circumvent in the US. (And has no effect at all on the real theft: the 3rd world duplication plants that churn out hundreds of thousands of discs that look almost exactly like the real thing, including packaging.) -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34366 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
