Right now as the law is written in the DMCA, copying a DVD is technically illegal. But this is pure BS, shoved through congress by one of the industry's many paid lapdogs while nobody was paying attention.

There's been quite a solid tradition within copyright law for years known as "fair use", allowing you to make copies for your own use or backup. I don't see how DVDs should be any different. I suspect that somewhere not too far down the road there will be a legal challenge to this and that part of this bogus legislation will be repealed.

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