How To Article: DVD to DiVx Backup

[Ioman]

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"In other words, DivX makes your DVD backup look good, damn good, just as MP3 did to CD backups (well, for most people at least). What we're going to do today is backup your precious DVDs, which you bought at your favorite store, so in case your pet (includes, cat, dog, significant other) scratches the dics beyond repair, throws it in the dumpster, or chews it up, you'll still have a backup of your favorite movie - Grease."

http://www.bitbenderforums.com/reviews.php?op=showcontent&id=14

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This is exactly what the MPIAA is trying to prevent. I think it was the DMCA that made this sorta thing illegal.



Section 1201(b)(1) provides:

No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that --

(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing protection afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title in a work or a portion thereof;

(B) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent protection afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title in a work or a portion thereof; or

(C) is marketed by that person or another acting in concert with that person with that person's knowledge for use in circumventing protection afforded by a technological measure that effectively protects a right of a copyright owner under this title in a work or a portion thereof.


http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~twm/embed/dmca.html

[dang]

Every consumer has the right to make a backup of music/movies that they own. It's part of our rights.

If they illegalize our ability to make backups of products we have bought is the day that I quit buying those products.

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Originally posted by dang
Every consumer has the right to make a backup of music/movies that they own. It's part of our rights.

If they illegalize our ability to make backups of products we have bought is the day that I quit buying those products.

Good plan dang, I agree with you. We should also make the companies aware that we have banned thier products because of their bad business practices. Of course we don't want to become targets so that they can examples out individuals, with the hopes that it will change the music revolution, but we also want to make sure that we make a difference.

That is why I don't buy CDs any more unless it is from the artist at the show.