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Originally Posted by davers
Another interesting tidbit but about DVDs is now it's legal to rip your DVD to make a backup copy.
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Really? I find this hard to believe since DVDs do in fact have a copy protection mechanism (CSS) which would have to be cracked in order to copy them. Technically that's no problem but legally I think it's still a “valid” copy protection. At least in Germany it definitely remains illegal and seeing how the USA are whoring even more for the content industry (DMCA), I just can't believe that. Plus, some companies have tried to sell systems that do copy DVDs (like Real Networks and this hifi company Kaleidescape or something) in the past and all of them were legally forced to cease these products. Do you have any source for that information?