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Originally Posted by ottdmk
One of the nice things about Canadian copyright law: format-shifting is explicitly protected. As long as it's for personal use I can rip my CDs to FLAC then convert them to anything, all perfectly within the law. Similarly, I'm allowed to rip a DVD to put it on my tablet.
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No, the latter is not allowed if the DVD is encrypted (which almost all are). You are not allowed to circumvent any digital locks. The government has said that they wouldn't prosecute anyone who did it for personal use, but they still steadfastly refused to change the law before enacting it. So, there's still time for an international treaty to force the government into enforcing the law. That whole process leading up to the law smelled fishy.