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Can you even make a backup without doing this? Which law takes precedence?

• gjsman-1000 4y ago
  The struggle of living in the US. This really hasn’t been clarified either because nobody, as of yet, has ever been sued for only backing up their media, but for other charges added. Movie studios seem to know that suing just for making backups of media you purchased comes with substantial risk of practically legalizing it. It would appear though that anti-circumvention would take precedence.
• sandworm101 4y ago
  You can, but you have to crack the encryption yourself. Selling or distributing bypass tools remains illegal iirc.
  • runlevel1 4y ago
    Unfortunately not, unless you're an academic institution, archive, or library. At least, not in its entirety -- you can do short clips under certain fair use circumstances. (IANAL) Here's the list of exceptions: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-37/chapter-II/subchapter-A/part-201/section-201.40 https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-37/chapter-II/subchapter-...