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It is not illegal to own and preserve media which is still under copyright. IP is not the problem, the problem is nobody cared until it was too late.
by bazoom42 4y ago
It is not illegal to own and preserve media which is still under copyright. IP is not the problem, the problem is nobody cared until it was too late.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoFormat shifting in the US is only permitted for audio recordings. Doing the same for video is a copyright violation even if you keep it to yourself.
- ShadowBanThis01 4y agoThat’s only true if you have to circumvent encryption.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoCopyright law from before DMCA still applies. It doesn't just disappear because it's easy to make copies.
- ShadowBanThis01 4y agoCopyright law didn't prevent you from copying video for home use. Look up the Disney vs. Sony case, which was a landmark.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoIf that were true there would have been no need for the AHRA. Copying audio tapes at home was a copyright violation. Doing the same for VHS was and still is.
- ShadowBanThis01 4y agoNo. That was still based on DIGITAL recording, and the lie that "perfect digital copies" would cause an explosion of piracy. And of course our "representatives" toadied up to the corporations and abetted them in screwing consumers. And, by levying an asinine "tax" on blank media, it actually AUTHORIZED home copying by presuming guilt. Anybody, yes ANYBODY based in reality knew that essentially all "piracy" took place in dorm rooms and bedrooms on double-cassette boom boxes... FAR from "perfect" copies. People who could afford DAT recorders were not going to be sapping record-company profits. And we all know what happened next: The "perfect digital copies" lie was further debunked with the ascendancy of MP3... another lossy and imperfect reproduction.