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Originally Posted by kennyc
Uh, no. DRM has nothing to do with either actually. As had been thoroughly explained a backup is nothing but a copy of the file and DRM has no effect on copying the file. Nor does it have anything to do with legality. That depends on the particular copyright laws at the location the backup takes place.
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Uh, no - DRM makes it more difficult to produce a reliable back-up, because a reliable back-up is one that you can rely on. And what do you rely on back-ups for? Restoring! And restoring is more difficult if there are extra steps required - like ensuring that you have the licenses for DRM.
The legality of it is because if you strip the DRM, it's easier to make a reliable back-up, but it's not legal.
You may see a back-up as "nothing but a copy of the file", but any sane person knows that a back-up is a copy of a file
for the purpose of being able to restore it.
Chambers: "a procedure for backing up data for security purposes"
OED: "to make a duplicate copy of (a file, program, etc.), esp. to safeguard against loss or corruption of the original."
Are you really claiming that back-up has nothing to do with restore? And if not, surely you can see that it's more difficult to restore files with the limitations placed on them by DRM?