Posted by testing_h on 11/16/28 11:40

Hi all.

As many people know, CD's have a limited life, the typical failure mode
being the aluminium layer developing "pinholes".

The problem is that most sensible people back up their valuable disks
to CDR in case the original gets damaged. Legally (ignoring the RIAA's
protests) you are allowed to make a single backup copy in the original
format as long as you have purchased the disk.

So, what happens if that original disk becomes unreadable?

Is ownership of the original (unuseable) disk enough to stay within the
law, or does the copied digital content become illegal the moment the
disk is unreadable?

-A

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