[Ldsoss] Boy Scouts get a "Respect Copyrights" activity badge

[Jesse Stay]

On Oct 24, 2006, at 7:09 AM, Shawn Willden wrote:

> On Tuesday 24 October 2006 05:38, Steven McCown wrote:
>> Even if you think that it *should* be okay to illegally download  
>> music and
>> videos, at the moment it is not.
>
> At this moment it's also illegal to watch legally-purchased DVDs on  
> Linux.  Or
> to rip them and store them on a MythTV video jukebox for more  
> convenient
> watching (and so that your two year-old doesn't destroy them).  For  
> that
> matter, by the letter of the law it's arguably illegal to convert  
> your CDs to
> MP3s for listening on your iPod.

Now the DVD situation *is* illegal under the DMCA.  Breaking  
encryption algorithms *does* have a specific category under law and  
people have been found guilty of it.  This is separate from Fair Use  
Doctrine.  Again, the question in this instance is "It's illegal, but  
is it moral?"

Jesse