Re: DVD Copy software

[NEM1S1S]

Vernon Frazee

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How is making backups of your DVD's, X-box games, and PS2 games violating any law? Don't assume because pirary is so prelivant these days that everyone does it....BECASUE THEY DON'T!

[fink]

If they're copyright protected then they aren't meant to be copied. Even if you did want the copies as backups for yourself, which I'm sure you do (you'd need to either read the license agreement with the software manuf or ask them if you're allowed to do that - even for your own use) if we told you how to do it or what programs to use then it would be information provided in a public forum that anyone could read and use for their own illegal purposes.

We simply don't want that kind of information in the forums because it can be abused.

sorry.

[SuperSparks]

I don't know what the law in Australia is, but in the UK making copies is strictly speaking illegal altogether, whether as a backup for your own use or not. But VDr goes by US laws which do allow "fair use" rights. However the cracking of copyright protection probably contravenes the DCMA, thus making it illegal. We mods always have to err on the side of caution in these matters, so until a US court declares that getting round copyright protection is legal, then we'll close all those threads. Better that than losing the forums altogether

[NEM1S1S]

it's ok, I was just asking for some advice. I found a piece of software anyway which overcomes CSS...

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...as I said, I'm not into illegal activities, I simply want to preserve some of my more collectible DVDs and just play the burnt copies...

Edited by fink... pls don't post URL's to software that can be used to crack copyrighted CD's.