• floo@retrolemmy.com
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    10 hours ago

    In the United States, this is perfectly legal. It’s also how it is perfectly legal to borrow DVDs from your local library and rip those, too.

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      10 hours ago

      It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services intended to circumvent measures that control access to copyrighted works (commonly known as digital rights management or DRM).

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act

      DVDs have copy protection.

      It’s also how it is perfectly legal to borrow DVDs from your local library and rip those, too.

      You got a source on that? I don’t think that falls under fair use.

      However, the owner of the copy of the book will not be able to make new copies of the book because the first-sale doctrine does not limit the restrictions allowed by the copyright owner’s reproduction right.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine

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        9 hours ago

        That’s right, I forgot. It’s legal to make a backup of the DVD, but it is illegal to bypass the DRM.

        But there’s some legal loophole where unless they actually witness you ripping the disc, they can’t prove that you bypassed the DRM, so they can’t really do much about that. So, it’s not exactly “legal” so much as it is “not illegal”.