[MacDV] DVDs, VIDEO_TS & Toast 6

[hawkgx at planetkc.com]

On May 3, 2004, at 9:48 PM, Randy Clark wrote: 

> Using DVDBackup, I made a duplicate of one of my commercial DVDs to 
> send with my kids while they're away at their grandparents. No, I 
> don't trust them to take care of the original ;^) and I may want to 
> watch the video while they're away. I checked & it appears I'm within 
> my Fair Use rights. 

You'd think its perfect reasonable, but its not what any court would 
interpret as fair use because you have to defeat a copy protection 
scheme to do it. In fact, its a violation of the DMCA. IMO, its a bad 
combination: the activity seems reasonable, but there are obscure laws 
that attach a BIG penalty to it, *and* they're generally not being 
enforced except at the whim of a prosecutor - when its convenient to 
make an example of someone. 

SR 

Well, it's really not worth it to me to go against the DMCA.  I get no
appreciable financial advantage 
in copying the DVDs I already own.  It was merely a matter of minor
convenience for the family. 
Which means if I don't do it (I'm not going to bother with it now), I'm
only inconvenienced in a 
minor way.  Not a lot of 8+ GB non-copyrighted DVDs floating around out
there that I'd be 
interested in copying to a 4.7GB DVD-R anyway. So, not much point in
figuring it out, I guess. 
Thanks for the feedback.
Randy 


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