* I can put the film on other devices I own to watch via more convenient methods (my phone, tablet, home theater setup)Īre those requirements fundamental to having a legal system that protects the rights of copyright owners? Honestly I don't think they are! Because the DRM schemes that enable the above situation clearly aren't stopping pirates in the first place. * I am not forced to watch advertisements or piracy warnings before the film * I can then personally view that movie with myself and my family on the display I want (the last hotel I stayed at didn't have a HDCP compatible TV so I couldn't display my purchased film on the TV) I don't actually know if my desired end-state is practical or even possible, but I can at least describe what it looks like: Raymond's guns away and bar him from owning a gun for life: ) The irony is, that means the Feds have every right to take Eric S. (Remember DeCSS? Yeah, hosting that is still a federal crime, irrespective of what you or your audience intends to do with it. Trafficking in circumvention devices, including publishing or downloading firmware that disables access protection measures, is illegal full stop.

That is illegal in the USA, with certain specific, narrow exceptions, whether you use such circumvention to infringe copyright or not. I'm talking about circumventing DRM which is a separate offense from copyright infringement. The ruling does NOT cover recording off the TV willy-nilly, or copying things you own there is a dicta in Justice Blackmun's dissent stating these things to be explicitly illegal.īut I'm not talking about doing the copying itself. The Betamax Supreme Court case was won - 5-4 - because the court found a single, very narrow, noninfringing use for a VCR: recording a television program that will air only once and never again after that single airing, and you cannot be around to view said television program at its scheduled time, and you intend to destroy the recording after viewing it once. copyright law makes no exception for copying content you own, though I do agree it may be hard for media companies to prosecute so you'll probably get away with it.

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