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Originally Posted by HarryT
Sadly, the courts disagree with you. The judge in the "RealDVD" case said that although backing up your DVDs is indeed legal, that does not confer a right to remove DRM for the purpose of backing them up.
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But that decision pertained to the maker's distribution of the tools, not to the individual's actions in using the tools:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/200...ds-is-illegal/
And even if it were applied to the individual, it seems to conflict with the 5th Court's later interpretation I quoted above, hence all the "seems to be" and "may be" language currently surrounding this.
Again, here's rooting for Class 10B to put this to rest!
(Although it would be sad to allow the use of the tools but still criminalize the creation and distribution of the tools themselves...)