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you can make a personal backup, but once you hand it to someone else it is no longer personal
by dmonitor 4y ago
you can make a personal backup, but once you hand it to someone else it is no longer personal
- Zetice 4y agoCan you? The ruling seems to rake issue with the digitalization itself.
- jasomill 4y agoIANAL, but even if we assume the act of backing up a DVD to hard drive is legal, it's not clear to me how one could legally use the resulting copy without somehow circumventing CSS. And with only narrow exceptions that probably don't apply here, this act of circumvention violates 17 U.S.C. 1201(a)(1)(A)[1] unless the copyright owner has authorized the process (as they do with licensed playback devices and software). [1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201