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Curious legal question...

Demon-Xanth

Demon-Xanth

Lifer
Ignoring the breaking of the copy protection scheme part of it, if you owned a full screen version of a movie, and made a copy of someone's wide screen version. Or vice versa. Would that be legal?
 
I guess it depends on the old argument of whether you're paying for a license for the content or if you're paying for the media itself.
Suppose someone creates a DTS CD of something that I own on both CD and vinyl... should I be entitled to download the DTS CD, since it isn't something that's commercially available, and I've already got two legal copies?
 
Content vs. format ... my wife owns a huge collection of Disney movies on VHS. I'm not a fan, but I told her I could download whatever she likes, since she already owns the content. We had an interesting discussion on the topic, and we eventually agreed that we don't just purchase content, but also the format, so she'll have to pony up for DVD copies. I'm hoping this never happens 🙂
 
Technically it's illegal to do anything that circumvents drm protection, even holding down the shift key in some instances.
 
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