this my seem illegal but....

lhstud10

lhstud10

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correct me if im wrong but... i really want to put a dvd on my HDD and i dont know how can someone help me?? oh and IDK is this illegal?? can you do this with a program or an operation using windows...


plz help:confused: :confused: :confused:
 
ughh thats soo gay!! all i want to do is watch it without the disk... like on road trips or airplane trips..
 
I thought that if you own the the dvd and back it up so it incase it sratches or breaks it wasn't illegal. If it is legal to do so use dvd shrink to back it up as a .ISO file, but it if is illegal do not do this
 
I know, it's dumb... Just like recently, I have some old disks I really want to make backups of because they've gotten scratched up over the years. Some the CD material began to flake off so portions of the disks are unaccessible! But to copy the disks you have to break copy protection, which is illegal...

murdock22 - As I mentioned after post, it's not so much the act of copying them but the fact you break the copy protection. But then copying disks is a rather taboo topic to discuss here since we don't know your real intentions :P
 
Yeah.
You can say your making a back up, but really, you can be renting movies and '' backing them up ''


Anyways.
Just bring the dvd with you.
 
It's only illegal if it isn't for your own personal use. Look at the copyright law, it makes no reference to how you store it, just distributing it and selling it, or otherwise profiting from it.
 
ETSA said:
It's only illegal if it isn't for your own personal use. Look at the copyright law, it makes no reference to how you store it, just distributing it and selling it, or otherwise profiting from it.
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So...
He can make a back up, but we have to take his word for hes using it just to watch DVDs without having the disk with him?


Right?
 
now that we have established that making a back-up and watching it is not illegal... how do i make a back up

oh and i do use netflix but you can take my word for it, what i am doing is only for the dvd's i own. thanks..
 
Actually, it is illegal in any way. They made a revision to the law recently that prohibited backups and the like.
 
Breaking the copyright protection is what is illegal. That means you cannot make a copy, even if you own the disc. You can make a copy of a DVD for your own exclusive use only if there is no copy protection on it already.
Tom
 
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It also depends on what country you live in, as I believe where I live (Canada) you are allowed to backup the disk
 
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