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Originally Posted by Shaggy
That is because in order to make a personal backup of a DVD you have to strip the DRM. It's not a copyright fair use issue, it's a DMCA issue. The same is not true for books.
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Sorry, you may perhaps misunderstand me.
RealMedia had argued that people had a legal right to make personal backups of their DVDs, and that right justified the removal of the DRM. The judge ruled that there
was no right to make a backup, and that therefore it fell foul of the DMCA. It's the "you don't have a
legal right to make a backup" point that I was making.
You are, of course absolutely right in saying that the RealDVD lawsuit was a DMCA issue, not a copyright one, but I've seem people here argue that you have a right to make a backup of a book that you've bought, and the RealDVD ruling appears to throw some doubt on whether such a right exists.