this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2026
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I'm sick of twitter reposts and this format, write the damn thing yourself i trust someone on lemmy more than i trust someone on twitter
You wouldn't download a DVD
welcome to the real world where those in power make up their own rules and tell us to abide by whatever rules they make up on the fly to keep us powerless.
But digitizing your own content isn’t illegal you have the right to backups. It’s when you choose to distribute those copies to people who did not pay for the original product that you get in trouble. This argument makes no sense.
Buying physical media is actually only buying a limited license to use that media yourself, and ripping the content to digitize/backup is technically against the the terms of that license in many cases. It's ridiculous and unenforceable, but true.
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It depends on what "your own content" means. Ripping a home movie has no encryption to begin with so you don't break any laws. Ripping a Hollywood movie requires breaking the dvd encryption and that itself is a violation of law.
Exactly my argument. Its bullshit
Well, a DVD would already be pretty digital, I'd think...
I'm so sick of the hypocrisy.
This defines my political stance better than any party does. I’m against hypocrisy. I’m pro fairness. For fucks sake, there’s a reason “liberty and justice for all” is part of the Pledge of Allegiance that American public school students (like me) said every morning from grade school through high school.
I can feel a rant coming on, so I’ll just be quiet now.
Digitizing a DVD is completely legal
To copy it into a format that you want (the equivalent of an ai company copying your book into their own format) you need to break css which is illegal. It's common and everyone can do it easily but it is still illegal.
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Confidently incorrect. As the other user said you have to break the encryption which is specifically illegal.
When it comes to this sort of thing, the lobbyist's interests have been taking precedence over the People's interests for a long while. And it has become much worse since the Citizen's United ruling. Something has got to give eventually, right?
Then play by your own rules. Nobody can truly stop you from anything. For the most part society tries to give you consequences after the fact.