Re: "If you didn't pay for it, you've stolen it!" [reply to Sunder]

At 07:01 AM 10/25/03 -0400, Sunder wrote:

If you bought an audio DVD and your car doesn't have a DVD player, or your only portable stereo system can only play tapes, you're not allowed to legally copy the music off the DVD onto other media to play in other devices.

IANAL so I'm not actually sure about duping DVDs to tapes. But you *can*, do it, trivially, regardless of the evil digital gremlins, which makes the point about the Analog Hole. And of course, if you rip to an MP3, that is the last ADC your content need ever see. Game over, Valenti. Get a real job. ----- "all the normalities of the social contract are abandoned in war" Jack Valenti MPAA pres, in LATimes on Kerry's war crimes