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

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Michael M. wrote:
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).



The libraries here have all sorts of media, including both games for the
computer and audio CD's. But then again the copyright rules are
different here than in the US :) That's why I can legally install
libdvdcss2 and people in the US cannot.

Not that the law stops most of the people.

Back on topic:

Backing up to DVD is a good idea, but the best backup method is to
backup to a remote server. That way, if your home/office catches fire,
your data is still intact. An external HD or a stack of DVD's are just
as likely to burn as the computer.

Joe
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