[mythtv-users] DVD Ripping was: Zap2it Labs Shutting Down?

David Brodbeck gull at gull.us
Fri Jun 22 17:41:54 UTC 2007


On Jun 20, 2007, at 5:11 AM, Brian Wood wrote:

> Archive or backup constitutes "fair use", as far as the copyright laws
> are concerned, so such a thing was at one time perfectly legal in  
> the USA.
>
> But the H'Wood types WANTED you to have to purchase another disk when
> your first one was destroyed. They saw it as a "revenue stream". So  
> they
> lobbied for the "Digital Millenium Copyright Act", making it  
> illegal to
> bypass the CSS system in order to make a backup of a "protected" DVD.

I don't think backing up a DVD requires bypassing CSS.  If you make a  
bit-for-bit copy of a DVD onto a DVD blank, it will work.  All CSS  
does is prevent you from extracting the video and converting it to  
another format.





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