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Is it? I thought it was fair use. Like cassette recording an album in ye olden analogue days. To stop vinyl wear-and-tear. That was certainly perfectly legal a
by Craiggybear 15y ago
Is it? I thought it was fair use.
Like cassette recording an album in ye olden analogue days. To stop vinyl wear-and-tear. That was certainly perfectly legal as long as it wasn't distributed.
Sigh. I'm a criminal and don't even know it.
I'm fucking sick of paying taxes and yet still being labelled a criminal by people who don't even know me. I'm sure I'm not alone.
- arethuza 15y agoI believe it's because DVDs do have a trivial copyright protection scheme on them - ripping the DVD involves breaking this and it's this part that causes the real trouble: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripping#Circumvention_of_DVD_copy_protection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripping#Circumvention_of_DVD_co...
- greiskul 15y agoFrom the article you linked: "This case made clear that manufacturing and distribution of circumvention tools was illegal, but use of those tools for non-infringing purposes, including fair use purposes, was not." So it is legal to rip a DVD, it is illegal to make or distribute a tool that allows DVD ripping. Yes, the law is insane like that.
- arethuza 15y agoIt does say this though: "personal use" copying is not explicitly mentioned as a type of fair use, and case law has not yet established otherwise.
- Craiggybear 15y agoOh. That'll be it then. Silly of me to have forgotten the trivial CP scheme. Considering I've probably paid £10 per person to have seen it in the cinema and then have bought the over-priced DVD as well. How many times do they expect me to pay for the same-old-same-old? I've paid two, maybe three times for the same product. Fair Use isn't a crime and I'll please myself. Either that or simply stop participating and stop buying their product entirely. May as well be hung for a sheep as for a lamb, eh?