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Originally posted by reese
Putting a dvd on your HD is 100% legal assuming you own the dvd. Backups are always allowed, so i have no clue what you mean. Also, i could stand here and say all day "I use DVDxCopy Xpress to copy DVD's all day long!!!" With just that sentence, i hav ebroken no laws, nor spoke of anything illegal.
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Not true... simply not true. "Fair Use" is superceded by the DMCA. If you have a DVD that is
NOT encrypted (CSS), then and only then can you back it up.
In the long chain of actions required to convert a DVD to a wmv/divx/mpg file, the ONLY step that is illegal (under the DMCA) is the process of decrypting the DVD contents. This is why applications like "InstantCopy" will read a VOB from a harddrive, but not from the DVD itself.