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.
>
>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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