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That's why to keep a backup, as is your legal right.
Unless the source contains some sort of DRM and you’re a citizen of the USA. In that case, your rights were stolen from you by the DMCA.
Fuck the law, copy it anyways.
Legality =/= Morality
You say that like a lot of us care lol. I choose to interpret DRM as disco rave music.
Nah, just adding color to the discussion. I run a 7-bay NAS that I built myself (3D printed case). I’m definitely not too concerned about respecting DRM/DMCA, but I don’t like having my legal rights stripped from me by some back door shenanigans.
I get you. DRM is absolutely ridiculous in implementation, but I've just kinda accepted it as it is what it is, and then promptly veer around it. Like I'm not opposed to paying my fair share for something, but I have zero sympathy for greedy executives that arbitrarily raise prices or pull other anti-consumer bullshit to make the imaginary line go up, especially on old digital content that is long past it's profit peak.
Only if your backup (or restore) process circumvents the DRM. But, yes, fuck the DMCA.
On that subject, copyright is a broken system, and I don't think anyone should feel compelled to participate in it anymore. You should try to compensate creators, but copyright theft is just the norm for corporations now (not just LLMs either, legal fictions have let Disney justify not paying on some of their licenses) so you do you.
Oh, was i supposed to feel that way at some point? Whoops!
Yes, laws should take root in the hearts of the people. When they fail to, no amount of policing will make their practice universal.
That said, copyright hasn't been working well for quite a while.
I follow laws when it makes sense to.
I'm not a citizen of the USA. Can i expect a unDRMed video?
All I can say is that you’ll have to check local laws, etc. around circumvention but most digital goods have DRM of some sort these days it seems.
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