My question exactly...I think if it's a DVD he bought it would be ok, but since he's renting it, maybe not?but ripping cds isn't illegal....so what's the basis for the difference?
I think, at least in this case, it has to do with ripping an owned CD vs a rented movie. If you didn't own the CD would it then be illegal?but ripping cds isn't illegal....so what's the basis for the difference?
The only illegal part is the decss decrytion used in the cracking process of the encryption on the CD.but ripping cds isn't illegal....so what's the basis for the difference?
Buzzkill.DVD ripping isn't legal because in order to do so, you have to bypass the encryption on the disc which is there as a copyright protection mechanism. That's a violation of the DMCA which prohibits bypassing copyright protection mechanisms.
I believe it has been decided that ripping CDs for personal use is legal because there is no copyright protection on the CD (it's just raw music data, no encoding), so you are not actually bypassing anything.
So, no, it's not within the letter of the law.
I'm hard pressed to suggest that it's not well within the spirit that these laws were created in, though.
Yes, but I don't try to bypass cops.Who cares? I bet y'all speed.
don't you have a radar detector?Yes, but I don't try to bypass cops.
Yes, but I don't try to bypass cops.
STORY
Two motor cops on side of the road run into street, pull over three of us. I'm first, pull into turn lane, stop, wait, two more turn off the street. Cop waves traffic on. I'm not sure if they were pulling me over or not, but the two cops proceeded to the two other cars, so I bolted .
Well, I think BV brought up a good point (if I understood his post correctly)... by the letter of the law, no it's not legal (falls under the unauthorized reproduction crap). However, if you ripped it to your ipod, watched it on the plane, then deleted it, you'd be acting within the "spirit of the law" and the reason why people rent movies, so arguably not doing anything wrong.Bummer. Thanks!
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3513_7-5128652-1.htmlThe ability to create copies of the media you've purchased for personal use is a long-accepted facet of the fair-use doctrine in U.S. copyright law (at least, it used to be). However, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) states that it's illegal to break the CSS copy-protection mechanism employed by most commercial DVD movies. What does that mean? Most fair-use advocates say that the policy directly contradicts U.S. copyright law, but the DMCA seems to indicate that you cannot make a copy of a commercial DVD, even for personal use, and you certainly cannot give a copied DVD to anyone or watch copied DVD files on your computer. We assume that fair use will eventually catch up and be established as a safety valve for consumers (which has been the pattern with previous technologies, such as VHS), but for now, the territory is still uncertain and a bit dangerous.
Yeah, those rootkits rocked the fsckthe encryption Sony tried w/ cds was a resounding success.