Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 11:49 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
Joe Hart wrote:

I think you hit it on the head. Because it's available. One of the
quirks of living in this liberal country is that it is _not_ illegal to
download films and music from the internet. Some loophole in the
copyright law.

I always thought it was a strange dichotomy that I can't get media for free
off the internet, but I can go to the library and get the same thing that
way for free. In both cases, the producers are not compensated...

Laws vary from country to country, but under U.S. copyright law, there
are a number of exceptions carved out for public and private libraries
-- things libraries are allowed to do that private citizens and public
companies are not. For instance, the reason you can't rent audio CDs
like you can rent videos & DVDs is that the recording industry decided
it didn't want to pursue a rental business model, whereas the film
industry decided it did. Copyright law gives the copyright holder the
authority to make that kind of decision. But libraries are nonetheless
permitted to do what they do with all the material they archive,
regardless of what any industry decides should be its business model(s).


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Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA
"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions
of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to
dream." --S. Jackson


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