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Reinhold Rumberger rrumberger at web.de
Thu Jun 10 14:58:07 UTC 2010


On Thursday 10 June 2010, Knapp wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Reinhold Rumberger 
<rrumberger at web.de> wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 June 2010, Knapp wrote:
> >> This is also great for rented movies because you can rent a
> >> bunch, copy, return disks, watch one a week for a while,
> >> erasing as you go, and then rent more.
> >> 
> >> Bending the law in your country? Yes, but then so is using CSS.
> > 
> > How's using CSS bending german law?
> 
> I am not German so I don't know but those laws are all over the
> place and mostly evil. I see these laws as the product producers
> trying to make sure they get their money and I do support that
> but why should I not be able to make backups of something I buy?
> Why can't I watch a move a week later? What does it hurt? I think
> this is 10 times more important for people with kids and kid's
> DVDs. They kill them in hours. Backing up is a great way to make
> it worth the time to buy the disk in the first place.

While I agree, that still doesn't make CSS usage bend any laws - 
they're twisted anyways... :-P

  --Reinhold




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