Thread: Will DRM on ebooks go the way of iTunes
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Old 04-09-2010, 01:02 PM   #10
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Gotta love laws and sematics:

•In United States, it is legal for an individual in the United States to make a copy of media he/she owns for his/her own personal use. Fair Use grants you the right to make a backup copy of your media for your own personal use. But in the case where media contents are protected using some effective copy protection scheme, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act makes it illegal to circumvent that copy protection scheme. This law makes it illegal to rip most commercial DVDs as they are typically protected by CSS encryption.

Sooo..it's legal to make a backup unless those who sell it to you don't want you to?

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