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Originally Posted by HarryT
Wasn't there a case a year or two ago when the company that makes the "Real Player" software was forced to withdraw from sale a DVD "backup" program, on the grounds that it infringed copyright? ISTR in that case that the court ruled that there was no "right" to make a backup copy of a DVD. Would that not also apply to a CD?
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was indeed and you sum it up correctly.
Technically the barrier to backing up a DVD is that one must circumvent the CSS encryption on most DVDs to do so. Others are correct, however, in that the RIAA has largely given up on litigating against those who rip CDs and no real legal definition of the practice's standing is extant.