HD DVD to Blu-ray -> Legal?

[Shadowself]

Originally Posted by sarnell2

Once you own the film though...Can't you do what you want with it, as long as you don't sell or share with others. I couldn't even do this as an experiment?

The problem is your statement, "Once you own the film..."

You don't own the film. You purchased the right to use one copy of it with restrictions. Technically you don't even own that copy. You own the physical media it is on and a limited right to use the data on that physical media. That's it.

It is a restricted right to use. You can't use it any way you want. This is where the "fair use" and DMCA and a whole lot of other legal mumbo jumbo comes into play.

But as a wise old legal expert once told me, "Anything is legal until a judge tells you it is not."