In Canada. Is it Legal to rip a DVD Movie to the Hard Drive ?

[Jeremy Duncan]

Tell me what you know about it.

Links ?

[setarip_old]

Hi!

I'm not being facetious - That would be a question for a Canadian attorney.

Why would you want to seek opinions (or claimed "facts") from anonymous posters at a video forum?

[Jeremy Duncan]

This is the newbies forum.
The statement under the link to this forum is ask any newbie question.

[setarip_old]

You're absolutely correct - and I've just given you my opinion ;>}

As I said, I'm not being facetious...

[Jeremy Duncan]

Well. There's something.
Thank you, you've made my day. :thanks:

[Shinigami-Sama]

Last I checked we were legal acquire content as long as we were the only ones to access it(personal use); as for circumventing the copy protection on dvds to GET it on the harddrive, your guess is as good as mine.
if it isn't, well we're screwed eh?

[Jeremy Duncan]

That would be stupid if we couldn't actually take the protection off so we could put it on the hard drive.

[Shinigami-Sama]

That would be stupid if we couldn't actually take the protection off so we could put it on the hard drive.

well tell that to the DMCA
they seem to think its quite smart
but I really havn't found very many resources on CR law for us 'nucks yet; nor have I heard of any major lawsuits so play it by ear?