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Originally Posted by slayda
I'm sure many of you can think of several other equally ridiculous ways that we accept, both legally and ethically, format shifting without even thinking about it.
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Well, true. Except that the companies that do all this "format shifting" have licenses to do so, even if they were "format shifting". (Although, while I don't think format shifting has been referred to in a legal sense, the term is meant to draw an analogy to the time-shifting referenced in the landmark Sony vs. Universal "Betamax" case. So I don't think it's a technical definition of changing formats, more just a general term for the ripping of CDs to MP3s, DVDs to AVIs, and BOOKs to TXTs ;-))