[G4] Pioneer DVD and Movies

[rich northouse]

Thanks for the feedback CJ, Mel and others.

The motivation for asking for info on copying some movies is that I had 
a hobby of collecting movies on DVD. That was until this last fall when 
someone broke into my home and stole over 60 DVDs.  Since then I have 
lost interest in my hobby, which in some ways is depressing because I 
was enjoying developing a nice collection.  I have been reluctant to 
start-up again.  I have home owner's insurance, but with a $1000 
deductible , which is just about the collections value.

However the thought occurred to me that if I made a back-up (or copy) 
than I would still have my collection.  I have my Mac (G4 Quicksilver 
w/ Pioneer DVD) and I thought most the required equipment,  but low on 
knowledge.

Didn't mean to create a problem.  Sorry.

rich

On Sunday, December 28, 2003, at 05:06 PM, CJ Scaminaci wrote:

> On Dec 28, 2003, at 3:21 PM, Mel Krewall wrote:
>
>> The "Fair Use" doctrine established by US law says that it is 
>> perfectly legal to back up your own media for your own use. If Rich 
>> were to sell the result, that would be illegal, but the basic topic 
>> is perfectly fine.
>> There are a number of Mac shareware and freeware products that will 
>> do the job, but as was mentioned earlier in the thread, none of them 
>> are one-click easy. Looks like a market opportunity for someone.
>> Mel
>>
>
> OK, I'll give you that. My basis was, that we don't know he's not 
> going to sell them. Not anything against Rich, but you can't be too 
> careful can you? That's why it's not an appropriate topic for a 
> mailing list. If it involves a possibility of illegal activity in any 
> way, it shouldn't be discussed here. However, most commercial DVD's 
> are copy protected. So one can't re-produce them very easily. My two 
> cents.
>
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