A lot of people don’t realise that the application of the VCR was technically copyright infringement, especially so when you lent tapes to your friends.
Yeah. That’s illegal in lots of countries.
couldbealeotard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Yeah. That’s illegal in lots of countries.
A lot of people don’t realise that the application of the VCR was technically copyright infringement, especially so when you lent tapes to your friends.
TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 2 days ago
But it is legal in the country he lives in as well as the country YouTube is headquartered in.
Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Is it? I’m not totally sure, as I’m not from the US but I think the DMCA is the nasty player in this game.
TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Technically I’m half right and half wrong (I think). It’s not illegal to backup media that one owns, but it is illegal to break DRM/copy protection which is required to rip most physical media these days.
Suffice to say the legality of it is a cluster fuck, but the morality, in my opinion, is pretty clear. Fuck the corpos.
Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Yeah fuck them.
Nearly all digital media is locked so in order to back up something you own you’ll have to break the lock. Fuck. Them. (And the people who voted for these laws)
anzo@programming.dev 2 days ago
True. www.copyright.gov/1201/2018/faqs.html