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. CJ Scaminaci Project Halo: Webwar Evolved Lead Software Engineer-Macintosh Development http://webwar.sourceforge.net http://sourceforge.net/projects/webwar HaloGenius at sbcglobal.net