Re: Other Players?


cwdjrxyz wrote:
The downloads I have found all are in degraded
compressed formats such as mp3, wmv, etc and not in uncompressed files
as recorded on a DVD. I am not going to pay an inflated price for
inferior recordings that may have copy restrictions, when it is quite
legal in the US to copy your own DVDs, tapes, LPs, etc for personal
backups. It is illegal to sell copies, or even give them to someone.
Most commercial DVDs are encrypted and here the laws are a bit more
murky and some issues remain to be resolved in court, and likely will
remain so for quite a while.

Correction: The above should read:

The downloads I have found all are in degraded
compressed formats such as mp3, wmv, etc and not in uncompressed files
as recorded on a CD. I am not going to pay an inflated price for
inferior recordings that may have copy restrictions, when it is quite
legal in the US to copy your own CDs, tapes, LPs, etc for personal
backups. It is illegal to sell copies, or even give copies to someone.
On the other hand, most commercial DVDs are encrypted and here the laws
are a bit more
murky and some issues remain to be resolved in court, and likely will
remain so for quite a while.

.

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