> "Completely legal"? Hardly.
>
> According to the fair use doctrine, it is legal.
> According to the DMCA, it is a federal crime to decrypt a DVD.
"section 1201(c)(1) states that nothing in section 1201 affects rights,
remedies, limitations or defenses to copyright infringement, including
fair use." (http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf)
However, I'm not a lawyer, and evidently the MPAA interprets the law
differently. It has all too common the last few years for people to
decide that the law says whatever they wish it said.
Anyway, I usually let my DVD player do any actual decryption. Sometimes
my VCR player happens to be a spectator to the result. Plus, no actual
bits get copied as such, so any laws with the word "digital" in it can
just keep their codified noses out of other people's beeswax, thank you
very much:-)
- David R.
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