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[-] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah. That's illegal in lots of countries.

[-] TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

But it is legal in the country he lives in as well as the country YouTube is headquartered in.

[-] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months 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 2 points 6 months 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.

[-] anzo@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[-] couldbealeotard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago

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.

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