Re: DVD Copyright to Hard drive

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Found this answer;

Assuming that you're talking about an encrypted copyrighted movie on DVD,
you cannot legally copy it to your PC in this country. Google for DeCSS if
you want information.

Note that MSFT is trying to make this legal for the next generation (HD DVD
and BluRay). Sony is playing the idiot again on the latter.

"Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:11o3jkgebd92q46@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> "Mac" wrote ...
>> It's surely not illegal under any jurisdiction to create your own backup
>> copy on any media you wish...
>
> Actually, it is. Making copies of audio recordings (for personal use
> only, not for distribution to others) was specifically exempted from the
> copyright law back a decade or so because of automobile, and
> then personal tape players (Sony Walkman, etc.). But copying
> commericial video (tape or discs) has been illegal from day one.
> Making backup copies of computer software is allowed by most
> End User Licence Agreements (that legal stuff you ignore when
> you install th software. :-)
>
> This is the situation in the USA. The copyright laws in other
> countries may be different.


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