Thread: Is this Legal?
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Old 29-12-2007   #15 (permalink)
whatever_gong82
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Re: Is this Legal?

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Originally Posted by Tactical Fart View Post
I do not download media from pirate sites. I consider that stealing. This is just concerning ORIGINAL media that I have bought (or got for Christmas) and OWN.

It's just that in order to convert a movie into a desired format (as said by Kerry56), you must break the encryption. That is the part I'm worried about, and whether or not anyone, be they Big Brother or the copyright holders, cares enough to come after me.
I assume that you live in the US, for the purpose of this discussion. Anyway, there are over 300 Million people that live in the US, and at least over 150 million of them are either adults or old enough to know how to use DVD Fab. Now, if Big Brother wanted to go over the IP addresses of people that downloaded programs like DVD Fab, so they can prosecute them, then they'd run into some of them, like me, that would run quickly to a lawyer or some other Legal person to sue their pants off.

Look again at the Fair Use clause of the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act). As long as you bought the software legally, and don't share the software, and use it only for your own use, they can't do jack squat to you.

By the way, Google or Yahoo "DMCA" and you'll get a whole lot of info on it, a lot of it not too good at all.

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