Discs to Digital - How?

[mar3o]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

It's against this site's rules to discuss that.

Just the fact that this is true shows how broken things are with copyright protection these days. IMO people should have every right to back up their movie collections from discs that they legally acquire. But of course that would make you a criminal. I understand the whole "copying is ok but decryption/circumvention is not" argument, but that's the point - effectively the laws in the US mean you can't legally back up your own discs that you paid for. It's garbage.

Another problem with the whole "backup" thing. People back their discs up for two purposes - 1) for ease of playing their files through their media center, while keeping their original discs in safe keeping, and 2) in case the original media goes bad or anything happens to them (stolen, damage by fire, flood, bugs, etc.).

But the law isn't on your side there, either. Technically, you can only keep a legal backup of your discs (assuming they were not protected with any copying technology) as long as you are in possession of the original discs. If you no longer have the original discs, you are supposed to delete your backup copy. The idea is otherwise you could just "backup" rented discs, or sell your discs but keep the backups, so you would still have them digitally, even though you sold the right to have them when you sold the discs. In reality, what this means is backups are worthless as far as the law protects you, because if your media rots or gets stolen, you no longer have the original, therefore you should dispose of your backup. But the whole point of the backup is having a fallback copy in case something happens to the original.

Like I said, the system is broken.