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About LinkBacksRead more.There's no denying that millions of users are already ripping DVDs, but we could soon be doing it legally.
Read more.There's no denying that millions of users are already ripping DVDs, but we could soon be doing it legally.
Hmmm.
There's a way to go yet before DVD ripping becomes legal.
Firstly, as I understand it, the court decision on which that story is based is a US court decision and even if DVD ripping becomes legal in the US it does not imply it necessarily will be so anywhere else. So those of us in the UK, for start, aren't affected by this .... or at least, not directly.
Secondly, even that decision doesn't make ripping legal, because the judge specifically didn't address the copyright infringement issues. There's several aspects to all this, even in UK law and the UK is a bit different to the US. In the UK, bypassing copy protection systems is a criminal offence, but even if material doesn't even have them, illegal copies can still be both a civil and criminal matter, depending on the circumstances of any copying. And, as I understand it, that situation is broadly the same even if the legislation covering breaching copy protection and copyright is similar in scope and certainly similar in purpose, but definitely different in implementation and in detailed provisions.
In short, even in the US, that decision doesn't make copies legal because of copyright, and no part of it applies here, in the UK and/or Europe, until and unless the respective courts here come up with a similar ruling.
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I assume the DRM they provide is entirely arbitrary in the number of computers it can be viewed on etc? (Not to mention the $$ for licenses to play them on other computers...)
Seems to me like either it's legal or it isn't, so there's no need to pay for a tool to do it and add DRM when there are free tools...
So now I can pay to do something of dubious legality - woohoo!
But seriously - people who are copying DVDs don't generally give a fig that it's an illegal act. They also avoid DRM like the plague. They want free content, both in terms of 'beer' and 'speech'. They don't want to be held hostage by any corporation.
If I have to endure DRM, I'd rather it be at the hands of Universal or Time Warner than RealNetworks, who, if history is anything to go by, will make me use an extraordinarily slow, bloated and tedious piece of software which bugs me constantly to upgrade to their 'Pro' edition!
I thought making one backup of a DVD is ok. I don't bother anyway so this is of no use to me.
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Who would pay for a DRM restricted service that you can get for free without any restrictions, as long a you don't share a DVD on P2P software no one would know it's on your PC anyway.
well it is a nice idea
but it won't stop the illegal copying a distribution of films a games
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