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If you somehow connect a DVD player to an iPad, then read it from there, would it be legal? Then if the iPad had such a large memory that you could fit the who
by Zarathust 14y ago
If you somehow connect a DVD player to an iPad, then read it from there, would it be legal?
Then if the iPad had such a large memory that you could fit the whole DVD inside it, would it be legal?
Then if you never had to turn off your iPad, the results would be exactly the same as what is currently illegal.
- shrughes 14y agoNo, and no.
- Zarathust 14y agoSo you are saying it is illegal to transform a device that cannot play DVD into a device that can play DVD? Again, you can have some buffering, but not too long as it would be circumvention.
- njharman 14y agoNo it's illegal to make copies of copyrighted works no matter how transient other than allowed under fair use. And (I might be wrong here) but to be a legal device that can play DVD it has to have licensing and keys to get past DRM (legally).
- wonderyak 14y agoNo, it is illegal to convert/circumvent DRM protected files to any other medium.
- randomdata 14y agoHe's not really suggesting conversion per say, just playing the DVD content straight from the DVD media like any other DVD player does. That does assume some kind of conversion in itself but should fall under fair use. It would be impossible to watch a DVD at all otherwise. It gets into the realm of the legality of using Linux to watch a DVD, which is generally considered illegal, but looking around the net there seems that there may be some legal precedence that says otherwise. If Apple somehow left their DVD player decryption code in iOS on the aforementioned iPad, for which they presumably do have a license to use, then there should be no legal qualms at all.
- wmf 14y agoA licensed DVD player has all sorts of restrictions like not retaining any transient copies once the disc has been ejected, etc. This was discussed in the Kaleidescape case.