Posted by Alpha on 03/02/06 23:51

"Walter Traprock" <wetraprock@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:wetraprock-D3E1DD.15145102032006@comcast.dca.giganews.com...
> Roy L. Fuchs, a spy, wrote:
>
>> >Of course a backup is legal. When you buy the DVD, you have purchased
>> >the intellectual property.
>>
>> Nope. You have purchased a license to USE the intellectual property
>> that is imprinted on the disc. Period. You own the plastic and a
>> right to watch the movie in the plastic.
>
> Did you just say something reasonable? Did you forget to spew hatred
> and call all of us consumers fucking retards for our crimes of buying
> DVDs?
>
>> >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.
>>
>> Nope. It is legal to make a downconverted copy but a bit for bit
>> copy is illegal.
>
> Wrong. It's just as illegal to make a bad copy as a good copy. In
> fact, pointing a camcorder at the tv screen or recording the sound off a
> speaker with a portable tape recorder is just as against the law as
> making a perfect copy. It's also illegal to copy shows off tv or radio.
> It's also illegal to bypass region control, or buy discs from foreign
> countries that aren't available here. I don't know the exact laws on
> these issues, but I'm sure the MPAA/RIAA would agree with me on the
> above.


Wrong. Read the Sony Betemax decision. Time shifting is allowed...or no
Tivos would exist.

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