----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Smith" <andy@???>
To: <hampshire@???>
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 12:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] DVD ripping
>On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 02:34:16PM -0000, Rob Malpass wrote:
>> This isn't particularly Linux, but please bear with me - a few
>> questions:
>>
>> 1) Am I right in saying you can copy DVDs to your hard disk or
>> whatever if you own the DVD? I presume this is as legal as ripping
>> CDs to our mp3 players which as far as I know is legal
>
>Both are illegal, currently. That is the subject of this petition:
>http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/privatecopy/
>
>As you can see, the government now agrees that an exception should
>be made for personal backup copies, but this exception has not yet
>been made. Therefore it is still illegal to do what you propose
>both for DVDs and for CDs (for those that say "all rights reserved"
>and then don't grant you the right to copy, obviously, not all CDs
>and DVDs, just almost all of them you buy).
>
>I am not aware of anyone that has ever been prosecuted for having
>backup copies.
>
>Cheers,
>Andy
Fair enough, if it's illegal, I won't bother. I must admit, I thought it
was legal to copy CDs to your own private repository for your own personal
use (where repository = ipod, hdd or whatever) - but obviously not.
Cheers
Rob
