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Originally Posted by GGG
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.
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Bingo. You have no fair use rights to anything that's copy protected. Making it illegal to break a digital lock also creates other problems, such as infinite copyright (can't copy something with a digital lock even after the copyright is supposed to be expired), deterrent to creating new/better formats/hardware (the law is anti-innovation - and in Canada it was first introduced by our Minister of Industry!) etc. IMO if anything should be illegal here, it's implementing digital locks to prevent consumers from exercising fair use rights.