| Rich Freeman on 1 Nov 2014 19:14:25 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Ripping a scratched DVD |
On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 2:21 PM, brent timothy saner <brent.saner@gmail.com> wrote: > > It's worth a mention that, last I read, if you own a legally acquired > physical copy of the medium, it is totally legal to own a digital copy- > no matter how you may have acquired said copy- as long as it is an exact > copy of the copy you own. > Getting a bit OT, but some would argue that it is totally legal to receive a copy of anything regardless of how that copy was made or whether you had purchased a copy of that thing previously. MAKING copies, on the other hand, is clearly illegal. Of course, in the USA anybody can sue anybody for anything, and the law is whatever the SCOTUS says it is. Whether you're in the right or the wrong getting to that point is incredibly expensive. -- Rich ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug