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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
Posts: 28,987
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Quote:
Originally posted by Christien
Joe, what you're doing is perfectly legal. Copyright law explicity states that a backup copy for personal use is acceptable, whether that's audio CDs, DVDs or software.
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Agree but then why has Sony been wasting millions on copy protection software on their movies (Casino Royale is the latest) that not only does not allow the legal owner to make a backup copy but in 40% of the latest movie would not even allow the legal owner to play the bloody movie?
I spent three days trying to figure out how to get the movie to play after renting it from NetFlix then went online only to find out that Sony had sent out millions of copies of the movie that would not play. They were recalling them and replacing them with a version that did not have the copy protection program on them.
If we as the purchaser have the legal right to make a backup copy (as we do) then how can they be legal doing this? Personally I have contacted NetFlix and Sony and told them that I will never watch another movie that is configured in this manner.
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