<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Andrew Close <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aclose@gmail.com">aclose@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> Arrrr! That be piracy. You may want to consider NOT broadcasting such<br>
> things on public mailing lists.<br>
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</div></div>could be kind of a gray area depending on where you live. if you rent<br>
more DVDs than you can watch before you have to return them, rip them<br>
and watch them later, delete the rips after you've watched them,<br>
you're just time shifting. :) not exactly legal, but not exactly<br>
illegal either, depending on your local...</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ummm, read the copyright/FBI warnings on every DVD lately? You have no rights whatsoever to be archiving rented DVDs. There's a case to be made for DVDs you personally own, but there is none to be made for ripping rented DVDs. Not in the USA, and not in Canada, which is where the original poster is (from the email).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Don't make me kill your parrot, pirate! </div></div>