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Originally posted by N_Jay
To the best of my knowledge DMCA has not been tested in court to disallow otherwise legal copying under "Fair Use". If you know otherwise please tell me.
Copying for personal use of legally owned property is quite a bit different than copying of non-owned (rented) property.
As presented in a long discussion on another forum, the current wording on the copyright notice disallows "Unauthorized Reproduction", not "Reproduction".
Being a layperson, I have the reasonable ability to use the established common principles of "Fair Use" to determine what I consider authorized or unauthorized reproduction, up to the point that the copyright holder(or case law) clarifies it.
The copying of rented material falls outside ANY common interpretation of legal copying.
So, while copying encrypted material prior to case law being developed might be considered "gray", in the black and white eyes of the law, copying rented property is BLACK under all possible rationalizations.
Sorry BS; but your analogy is "BS"!
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eh - whatever lets you sleep at nite.
RIAA and MPAA both disagree with your legal rights to do anything that deals with ripping the information stored on your kids games and their baby einstein movies. to even "back up" self owned dvds regardless of usage us illegal according to DMCA b/c you need to break the copy protection scheme that the info is encrypted in. Layman or not (or your choice of ignoring the understanding of the legal ramifications), when you break the law, you're still breaking the law.
honestly, i could give a crap what you want to back up, i was just trying to help out. if you prefer me not to respond to any of your posts, i'd be more than happy to, dickus.
but the minute you're ripping any commercial dvd with encryption, you bet your sweet ass that you are in violation of DMCA.