#124331 - 12/03/02 08:07 AM
Re: Making CD backups
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Settled Boomer
Registered: 06/16/00
Posts: 516
Loc: London, UK
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Thanks for clearing that up, Witchen. And I hope those laws change soon! 
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#124335 - 12/03/02 10:17 PM
Re: Making CD backups
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Adept Boomer
Registered: 11/01/99
Posts: 10323
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The law in regards to back up copies only applies to software. Movies copied for home use from broadcast and other medium has been permisseable according to the courts for some time. Many felt that the courts would apply the same logic to copies of software for personal use and also MP3 downloads - but they distinguished the two mediums and stated that due to other laws - software was different.
Unless the courts rule otherwise at this point making back up copies of videos is a whole different thing and should be legal as long as it isn't for sale or broadcast, in other words for profit.
Laura
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#124338 - 12/06/02 10:16 PM
Re: Making CD backups
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Grande Olde Dame
Sonic Boomer
Registered: 12/04/99
Posts: 31224
Loc: Northwestern New Mexico, USA
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This is all academic for me, since I don't own a CD burner, but I distinctly remember when I installed Tony Tough just about ten days ago that there was a clause in that agreement saying you could make a single copy for a backup, for personal use only...
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