[ILUG] IOL Broadband handing over information.

[Paul Jakma]

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> I should have made clear that I'm only interested in legal copying. 
> [I take the moral position that it is not worth breaking the law 
> unless the return for so doing is very large.] I thought from your 
> original post you were saying that it _is_ legal to make a software 
> backup.

You used to unconditionally have that right, AFAICT. (in between the 
2000 act being passed, and the amendment being passed).

> I take it that DRM over-rules that right?

If there's some kind of copy-protection, it seems to me, you no 
longer have that right (or at least, you can't exercise it legally, 
as you're not allowed to circumvent copy protection). How it seems to 
me, from previous discussion anyway.

> I did try copying in various ways (including dd) under Linux. I 
> looked at the CDs I made (with od) and they looked fairly 
> plausible. But as someone pointed out, the PlayStation may check 
> that you are using their black CDs.

I've no idea i'm afraid.

Have you tried PtP networks to see if you can get a backup copy that 
way?

Then you havn't circumvented any copy protection yourself really, and 
you end up with a backup copy (which is allowed). Probably not quite 
allowed, but I don't see a moral problem with it :).

(Personally, I find the enshrining of 'screw the user as you deem 
fit' in that ammendment /immoral/, but hey..)

regards,
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