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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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What that means is if you are able to backup copyrighted material without violating any other laws, then you can do so. However, content producers do NOT have to guarantee that you are able to backup their material.
By arguing it as a legal right (which it is not), RealMedia was attempting to justify the DRM removal by saying that the MPAA had to allow people to make backups. Backups are legal, but there is no "right" to make a backup. That's not a contradiction.
As stated previously though, this doesn't apply to books.