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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
 ·Comcast
| Bill, Schmill!
I can copy almost anything... short of Blu-ray, but that's coming!
Seeing as my laptops rip as soon as a CD is inserted... what do I care about some stupid bill?
DVDs, well, yeah! They get ripped too!
Soon, even the BDs will get ripped.
KMA RIAA & MPAA!
Man I love my VAIOs! 
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Morac
join:2001-08-30
Riverside, NJ
·Comcast
| Sure you can copy them, but wouldn't it be nice to be able to legally copy almost anything without having to worry about the RIAA/MPAA breaking down your door?
Copying copyrighted material is a federal crime (ever see those FBI warnings). unless the copy is protected by the "fair use" clause. This is why copying a CD as a personal backup is legal.
Technically copying a DVD for personal backup is also legal, because the DMCA has provisions that allow using tools to get around copy protection schemes for purposes of "fair use" is legal. Of course the DMCA makes the creating of such tools illegal no matter how they are used. So it's okay to crack the encryption for personal use as long as you tell anyone else how to do it (eg: using DVD X Copy is sometimes legal, selling or giving away DVD X Copy is never legal (company was sued)). DVD Jon got around this by not being in the U.S. when he developed his hack.
The same thing is true with Blu-ray and HD-DVD. You're free to make backups if you can. This is the dumb part of the the DMCA because you really can't since it's illegal to crack the AACS scheme. That and the AACS scheme was designed with the understanding that the decryption keys would be cracked and has ways of revoking said keys.
By the way I'm not disagreeing with you, just bringing up the point of the bill.
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