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Cloning your own DVDs is legal right : )
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sammychan
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6. July 2006 @ 22:03 |
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I've been using CloneDVD2 + AnyDVD for about 4 months now. Before that, DVD Shrink / Decrypter. Anyways somebody I know sent an email to the CMPDA which is basically the Canadian version of the MPAA asking about any legal issues with backing up your own original DVDs. Apparently they claim that it's not legal to even backup your own DVDs. Can somebody tell me if this is true or not ? Maybe it's different in the States. Here is the email received back.
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Hello
Thank you for your inquiry. To be blunt, there is no permission or legal authority to copy an original DVD under any circumstances. The only exception to this is for music discs and that is because a levy on blank media goes to the music publishers to compensate them for lost revenue when music discs are copied. There is no coresponding payment to the movie studios or software and game distributors.
That being said, there is a world of difference between someone who makes a copy of an original DVD for their own private purposes as apposed to making copies for sale or other commercial reasons. Both circumstances would be an infringement of copyright but in the case of copying for commercial reasons, it crosses the line and becomes a criminal offence.
In order to protect the content of original DVDs, the movie studios have encrypted their discs to prevent digital copying. The software that you mentioned contains a hack to get around this protection to permit the user to 'in effect' break the law.
I understand your point about potential damage to an original DVD preventing it from playing but that's a risk you take with any product you purchase and is a somewhat specious argument.
So, in short, it is not legal to copy or backup an original DVD that you have purchased.
Yours truly
Jim Sweeney
Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association
Anti-Piracy Operations
Office: 416-686-8854, Fax: 416-686-9425
Toll Free: 1-877-614-4402
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6. July 2006 @ 22:30 |
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6. July 2006 @ 22:30 |
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7. July 2006 @ 00:04 |
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i personally always understood that if you owned the original, it was alright to make a copy. So dont go to blockbuster and rent to get a copy unless you are replacing something you own. And always keep the original just in case...no matter if its fubar!
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7. July 2006 @ 06:28 |
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Yes you own the DVD but you do not own the content that is on that DVD, it is copyrighted. Although, you can backup your disk for personal use, the software that will do that job is illegal as it breaks the copyright protection. It is a Catch 22.
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7. July 2006 @ 06:37 |
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I tend to disagree. You would think if you spent 20.00 bucks on the disc then you own the movie. And you could make a copy of it for back up use.
I think its pure bs. What next....its going to be illegal to copy off the tv like hbo shows. Then why make dvd and vcr players that can record from the tv?>?
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7. July 2006 @ 06:41 |
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Oddly enough, Hollywood is promoting a bill that wants to flag certain TV shows so that they can be recorded but not copied to any other media, nor can they be played more than a certain number of times.
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gogochar
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7. July 2006 @ 07:33 |
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That is pure BS!!! People have been backing up their media, recording shows off the TV, and sharing music for decades! I learned a long time ago (from Barney the TV series) that sharing is caring. Are you (the MPAA and RIAA) telling me that what Barney is doing is telling me to do illegal stuff?!?! That is utter BS!
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gogochar
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7. July 2006 @ 07:36 |
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BTW, the RIAA thinks today's society is a bunch of kids that need to be controlled! That's just my perception on the whole RIAA trying to pass bills and laws to ensure they don't lose any money. Any thing that might make them lose money is just sooooo wrong.
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11. July 2006 @ 09:54 |
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Just to add my 2 cents here. I don't care what the "law" is as the manufacturer does own the copyright and they say what can be duplicated and what cant. My point being, i've seen different DVD's with different warnings. I backed up my Pirates of the Caribbean from best buy and the warning clearly stated duplicating and remanufacturing for "commercial use" is prohibited. So to me, and I'm not a lawyer, that means if I make a copy and stick it behind my original in my box that I bought I'm ok on that particular DvD. But you have to feel sorry for the stars though...how it Tom Cruise supposed to survive and live without anything less than 20 million a film...LOOOOOOOOOL
It's all BS!!!!
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