TPASXM787 From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 1730 posts, RR: 26 Posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 892 times:
I have the 40 Year Old Virgin DVD and I was going to burn a copy of it. However, I went to use the program I have to burn DVDs and It said that the DVD is CSS encrypted and the program could not do it.
So...how illegal is the DeCSS thing? I'm guessing that it is, I'm just not sure how illegal it is. Basically I was going to burn a copy to keep at my girlfriend's house and mine in case the Feds are wondering...lol.
So, is it like they're lurking watching people download this illegal, or more like "file sharing" illegal?
Pilotsmoe From United States of America, joined May 2005, 246 posts, RR: 0 Reply 3, posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 881 times:
Nah, It's perfectly legal as long as you have the original copy
Go3Team From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 3244 posts, RR: 28 Reply 4, posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 880 times:
Btriple7 From United States of America, joined Sep 2005, 1137 posts, RR: 10 Reply 5, posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 875 times:
I bet there's some fed reading this thread right now.
TPASXM787 From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 1730 posts, RR: 26 Reply 6, posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 875 times:
Quoting Pilotsmoe (Reply 3): Nah, It's perfectly legal as long as you have the original copy
Pilotsmoe From United States of America, joined May 2005, 246 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 2 days 20 hours ago) and read 866 times:
DLKAPA From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 10, posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 837 times:
Generally speaking its about as illegal as ripping non-encoded DVD's. In the end, you're doing the same thing, the MFR has just made it harder to do so.
Jean Leloup From Canada, joined Apr 2001, 2077 posts, RR: 27 Reply 11, posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 828 times:
What does "How Illegal?" mean, anyway? It's absolutely illegal, and that's really all there is to it. Is there any such thing as "a little bit illegal"?
Whether you'll get caught, get a big fine, etc., is another matter, and probably depends a fair bit on your jurisdiction.
JL
p.s. It seems to me that you also know, deep down, that it's wrong - but that part of you is hoping to get vindication from other here, saying they do it all the time. That's just my opinion, of course.
RAMPRAT980 From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 600 posts, RR: 3 Reply 12, posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 818 times:
Lijnden From Netherlands, joined Apr 2003, 552 posts, RR: 1 Reply 14, posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 800 times:
Did you ever go on one of the newsgroups or torrent sites? Tons of stuff to download. From whole books on how to beat the taxman to the latest software, movies, games and music. Not to mention the guys that have hooked up their satellite-dishes to their computers and can plug into about every TV-channel and more.
It is simply the modern way of taping records on a cassette and hooking on two videos to make a copy of the rented VHS tapes (remember: the 70's and 80's). The tapes have gone by now and the DVD or CD has taken its place.
Is it illegal? Is it legal? It is neither; things done with computers (call it advanced calculators) are often in a big grey area. You are making major calculations using a device that only knows 1's and 0's. The outcome is a result that might be called mp3 but still exist only out of 1's and 0's. How can that be illegal?
Lentigomaligna From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 15, posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 796 times:
Quoting Lijnden (Reply 14): Is it illegal? Is it legal? It is neither; things done with computers (call it advanced calculators) are often in a big grey area. You are making major calculations using a device that only knows 1's and 0's. The outcome is a result that might be called mp3 but still exist only out of 1's and 0's. How can that be illegal?
Intellectual Property, regardless of its format (whether the 0s and 1s of computers or a's and b's in print) is property nonetheless.
Jwenting From Netherlands, joined Apr 2001, 10213 posts, RR: 24 Reply 17, posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 768 times:
Quoting Pilotsmoe (Reply 3): Nah, It's perfectly legal as long as you have the original copy
And keep the copy as well as the original yourself.
Quoting Lijnden (Reply 14): Is it illegal? Is it legal? It is neither; things done with computers (call it advanced calculators) are often in a big grey area. You are making major calculations using a device that only knows 1's and 0's. The outcome is a result that might be called mp3 but still exist only out of 1's and 0's. How can that be illegal?
It's actually quite illegal. It's theft. Of course the pirates will claim that noone gets hurt and therefore it's not illegal but I HAVE seen people get hurt seriously.
Friends lost their jobs because of lowlife pirates, they lost their homes and pensions.
Thanks to pirates thousands of people end up on the street every year.
AirTran737 From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 3559 posts, RR: 15 Reply 18, posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago) and read 764 times:
I rented it and burned it with DVD Shrink, I did the same with The Wedding Crashers. Screw Hollywood, they make anough off theses movies, its my way of sticking it to the man.
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) Personal copys are legal, though
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