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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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You have the right to buy a house. That does not mean anyone is obliged to sell you a house, you cannot sue anyone for not wanting to sell you his house. Yet there is nothing wrong in you buying a house if you can pay what the owner asks.
There are at least these two kinds of rights (I heard the word some time, but I don't remember it... besides, I heard it in Spanish). The rights you have because it's not "wrong" to do it, and the rights you can ask and demand to be fulfilled. The personal copy would be in the first group.