Backups and CD ripping is not fair use February 17, 2006
At least that is what the RIAA and friends think and thats what they told The Copyright Office of the Library of Congress during the triennial review of the DMCA (pdf).
So what are we to do about lost or damaged media we have legally purchased? Thankfully, the entertainment industry has that all figured out. We can simple buy a new copy from them! Here is how they put it
“Presumably, consumers concerned with the ability to make back up copies would choose to purchase music from a service that allowed such copying. Even if CDs do become damaged, replacements are readily available at affordable prices.”
Finally there is a solution we can all learn to love. Just buy it over and over again and your problems are solved. Actually, I have a better idea. Replacements for an industry which lack even the most basic level of respect for our rights are readily available at very affordable prices (free). There is a good article on this here
- Posted in : Fair Use Rights
- Author : fairuseday
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What a load of BS!! Packman in Germany has Fair-Use added to a DVD-Shrink script for Linux. Fair Use is guaranteed at least to USA Citizens.
“Description:
XDVDShrink is a project in BASH and Perl-Gtk2 that allows you to create fair-use archival copies of DVD content on single-layer writable DVDs. It ships with a Gtk2 front-end (for the front-end) making things a bit simpler.
* Command-line and graphical interface
* Scriptable
* Copy single movies
* Copy multiple episodes
* Selectable audio stream (AC3 only)
* Option for one subtitle stream per DVD title”
found here… http://packman.links2linux.org/?action=630