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 Posted by Charlie Hoffpauir on 03/01/06 23:08 
On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 20:41:53 GMT, no@none.com wrote: 
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>Of course a backup is legal.  When you buy the DVD, you have purchased 
>the intellectual property. 
> 
>Indeed, if your copy was destroyed, it would be legal for you to make 
>a copy from a rental, friend, etc. because you still own the 
>intellectual property.   
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>Of course, if you sold, lost, or gave away the orginal, you no longer 
>own it. 
> 
>As far as disabling copy protection goes, that is illegal.  So just 
>how you would make the copy is another issue. 
 
A good example of why it's not a good idea to take free legal advice 
from anonymous posters on Usenet. 
Charlie Hoffpauir 
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/
 
  
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