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Originally Posted by TeleConvert
yes, it seems that they are getting a little heavy-handed, but I have to wonder if they'll go so far as to say that you can't rip your CDs to the hard drive anymore. It has always been allowable to make a copy of something to, for example, play it in your car. I tend to back things up so I can carry around copies rather than risk my precious originals.
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Only if you didn't circumvent copy protection to do it. It is illegal to copy a DVD for personal use for example:
http://money.cnn.com/2004/02/24/comm...y/dvd_burning/
So if a CD has copy protection on it (all DVDs and HD/BluRay disks do have DRM), circumventing it is illegal - that's already established law. Really stupid and evil law given that the financial damages make a person a felon for copying a single CD IMO, but established.
- Josh