Exactly why people are trying to get it altered or overturned. (do a search for dmcra) It was (is) crappy legislation that is not 'finished'. It leaves too many nasty loopholes for the recording industry to come after us.

I believe the fair use is under Title 17 also, you can look for it if you want. This is where it mentions that an archival copy of copyrighted material for yourself and no profit is ok. But the DMCA gets around that with its "copy protection" protection, basically making the older law a moot point with respect to DVDs specifically.

This message was edited by Spiky on 09/01/04 15:21 ET.