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Originally Posted by rkomar
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.
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I'd forgotten about that. The DRM on DVDs is so completely cracked that I forget it's even there. Still, format shifting is still explicitly allowed for all non-encrypted content (which thankfully CDs are.)