[mythtv-users] The Boxee Box

[Brian Wood]

On Thursday 10 December 2009 02:29:05 pm Matt Emmott wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Brian J. Murrell 
<brian at interlinx.bc.ca>wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 15:16 -0600, Mitch Gore wrote:
> > >         A perfect real world example of this point:
> > >
> > >         http://xkcd.com/488/
> > >
> > >         Jeff Walther
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Or just buy the disc and rip it for a backup.  Then there will be no
> > > DRM and your not a criminal.
> >
> > In the spirit of the comic, ripping it makes you a criminal in that you
> > had to violate the DMCA in order to (break the DRM to) rip it.
> 
> CDs don't have DRM.
> 
I must have missed that we were talking about music CDs, I believe you can 
legally rip those in the USA, as long as you are doing so for "fair use" 
reasons. 

Of course Sony believes that you must accept a rootkit on your machine in 
order to play the disk:-) I'm not so sure I would trust them when they say 
they stopped that anti-social behavior.

Of course, IANAL.