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leemind · 07-19-04, 09:30 PM

Thanks for those links. Interesting reading :rolling: However, after doing some research of my own. I still can't tell what's is really legal and what is not legal. It looks to me as if it is not as cut and dried as I thought it might be

I found this quote
"The Digital Millennium Copyright Act [DMCA] allows authorized equipment and software, such as hardware and software DVD players, to unlock the Content Scrambling System and Macrovision protection on DVDs."

"allows authorized equipment and software". That 'authorized' means you already pay some license fees back to MPAA on the electronics which must be included in the hardware. Now the software part is another story.

(http://pdaphonehome.com/forums/showthread/t-26864.html)
It sounds to me like it is the software that is illegal not the burning of the DVD?
So is it illegal to put movies onto your PDA?

I am so confused!
Oh yeah and then throw this link in too:
http://www.protectfairuse.org/consum...w_playing.html

07-19-04, 09:30 PM	#12 (permalink)
leemind Aximsite Rookie Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 22 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Thanks for those links. Interesting reading :rolling: However, after doing some research of my own. I still can't tell what's is really legal and what is not legal. It looks to me as if it is not as cut and dried as I thought it might be I found this quote "The Digital Millennium Copyright Act [DMCA] allows authorized equipment and software, such as hardware and software DVD players, to unlock the Content Scrambling System and Macrovision protection on DVDs." "allows authorized equipment and software". That 'authorized' means you already pay some license fees back to MPAA on the electronics which must be included in the hardware. Now the software part is another story. (http://pdaphonehome.com/forums/showthread/t-26864.html) It sounds to me like it is the software that is illegal not the burning of the DVD? So is it illegal to put movies onto your PDA? I am so confused! Oh yeah and then throw this link in too: http://www.protectfairuse.org/consum...w_playing.html Last edited by leemind; 07-19-04 at 09:40 PM.