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Originally Posted by nfotiu
It is also odd that people are arguing against this American policy with examples that are protected in the US by the Fair Use doctrine. ie, ripping a dvd to a dvr or ipod.
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It was my understanding that the law prohibits using any program which bypasses any security encription. Therefore while coping the content from a DVD to a DVR may be protected by fair use it isn't possible to do it legally because the encryption on the disk would need to be broken first.