[mythtv-users] Zotac IONITX Performance

Eric Sharkey eric at lisaneric.org
Thu Sep 24 17:33:14 UTC 2009


On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>> It's probably within fair use rights to send one of the
>> advertisements/trailers found on a BR disc to someone looking for test
>> material.
>
> Fair use isn't the issue, if it was there would be no problem, since we are
> working towards "interoperability".
>
> The DMCA would be the problem, as I understand it there is practically NO
> legal reason to break the encryption on a Blu-Ray.

That liability wouldn't extend beyond the person doing the breaking.
Once the rip has been done sharing the rip should be legal.  If the
rip were done in a jurisdiction not covered by the DMCA, then there
may not be any liability at all.

Of course, I'm not a lawyer.

Eric


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