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Posted by Netmask on 09/25/05 23:42
In Australia the law is an Ass on this subject or at best highly
hypocritical. You can legally buy all manner of devices from VHS recorders,
DVD burners both in and out of computers, digital set top boxes that have
hard disks and ports for exporting to computers etc etc but the law is quite
clear it is illegal to record anything that has copyright ownership.
We seem to have inherited the British mind set of "wink wink nudge nudge
mentality of 'you can do it but don't get caught!' almost as bad as the
Americans (The Greatest Euphemistic Society on Earth) on another subject
"don't tell don't say!!"
"whosbest54" <whosbest54@aol.com> wrote in message
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> In article <1127604275.708158.173070@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
> ElizabethLErwin@gmail.com says...
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>>
>>Hey! (Please excuse cross post...I'm desperate!)
>>
>>I have a pretty significant collection of old VHS tapes from the 80s
>>that I would like to transfer to dvd for storage purposes. I am
>>thinking of buying the Sony DVD Recorder/VCR Combo (RDR-VX515)since it
>>offers multi-format playback. SO my question concerns copyright. Will
>>this machine be able to dub these tapes since they are copyrighted? The
>>ad for it says it will transfer non-copyrighted materials but I'm not
>>sure if that is accurate or just for legal purposes. I am woefully
>>ignorant in this arena and would love to hear any and all feedback
>>(especially if you have this item or can recommend a better dubber)
>>
> If they are commercially produced tapes with macrovision protection, the
> machine will not copy them. Your choices for those tapes are to get some
> sort of external macrovision defeater to use with a separate VCR to play
> into the DVD recorder or to try to find a way of flashing the recorder's
> firmware with a hacked version as another poster suggested.
>
> As far as the legalities go, consumer advocates will argue that copying
> tapes you already own for backup is fair use. The entertainment industry
> will argue your activity is illegal copying and you must buy the tapes or
> DVD versions new again. The courts have yet to fully rule clearly on
> this sort of activity. The bottom line is the entertainment industry
> isn't going to go wholesale after private individuals conducting this
> sort of copying in their homes even if the courts finally rule that it is
> illegal.
>
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