macrovision copyrighted videos

[pumphybear]

an old guy who stays close to me has Alzheimer's disease

his wife has asked me to copy a video to dvd, i dont have the software to do this or a vcr

he has a problem as he cant use the video recorder to watch his `movement video`

it would make the world of difference to this old guy if he could get it on dvd (hes a penshioner and not made of cash)

i know this might be illegal, but can any of you guys help me get round the block on copying it

fair enough if its a no-no, but i thought i would ask

(a neighbour has a video and the necessary stuff)

[SpywareDr]

i know this might be illegal, but can any of you guys help me get round the block on copying it

fair enough if its a no-no, but i thought i would askJupitermedia AUP Agreement
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[Welshjim]

Well, if the video is copyright protected, copying it may not be legal, and presumably the video will have coding to prevent copying. However the subject of "copy video to dvd" is covered by the references here
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2006-38,GGLG:en&q=copy++video+to+dvd

[fink]

If it's macrovision then it is copyprotected not just copyrighted.. more on that here (one of the links from Jim's link)

http://hometheater.about.com/od/dvdrecorderfaqs/f/dvdrecgfaq2.htm

To break the copyguard would unfortunately be illegal so we can't discuss that as Spywaredr points out.

[Dude111]

I think its nice that he wants to try and help the guy :)

[pumphybear]

thanks for the replies lads

kinda knew it was illegal