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Originally Posted by asjogren
"apparently when you buy a CD you are agreeing to a licensing agreement. "
I bet a competent lawyer would rip that apart. Is the CD being treated as a product? Or, as licensed "software"? I doubt they can claim both depending on the situation.
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CDs had DRM stricken down as it installed software on a PC to block ripping the CD to MP3s.
However, it's held up on DVDs and Blu Rays. It's been held up to be illegal to crack the copy protection and rip the DVD or burn a copy. And you have all those warning screens before you get to the movie which make it very clear that you own the disc, but only the right for private viewings and that you can't distribute copies, show it in public etc.
Point being, the laws aren't really clear/consistent on this kind of stuff.