Challenge accepted.

Put in a movie and read the warning. Copying DVDs is illegal in the USA. Creating, importing, using, owning a device that breaks any sort of copy protection is now illegal. Note in the link below that it is the circumvention of the copy protection that is illegal. (more on this below) And the problem with DVDs is that the copy protection extends to both digital and analog processes, so no copies are legal.

It is called the Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1998, and it is stupid. It is being fought. Do a search for dmca and you will find plenty of info like this:
[Link: eff.org]

Here is the law, section 1201 in particular:
[Link: www4.law.cornell.edu]


Copying CDs is not illegal. You can make full digital copies of CDs one at a time as long as you don't give/sell them to anyone else. Also, you cannot make a digital copy of that digital backup. For comparison, you are not allowed to even make backups of DVDs. The reason you can copy CDs is because the copy protection allows what I just said. You can make digital copies, but no digital copies of the digital copies. Analog copies fall under the old rules for cassettes and VHS and other analog copies as there is no copy protection for analog processing on CDs.

This message was edited by Spiky on 09/01/04 12:53 ET.