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Originally Posted by HarryT
Depends where you live. It's not legal in the UK, for example. I'm not entirely sure that backing up DVDs is legal in the US
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It's just as legal as copying CDs in the US (there's no diffference).
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- ISTR that one of the big software companies (might have been the makers of "RealPlayer") was forced to withdraw from sale a DVD "backup" program when the courts ruled that it was a tool for infringing copyight, and that DVD owners did not have an inherent "right" to create backup copies of their DVDs.
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Most (if not all) burning applications contain software to backup DVDs. Nero certainly does, and it's one of the largest commercial ones. The case about RealPlayer was probably related to removing DRM, not whether backups were legal.