> - If you don't want to go to the effort of ripping a hundred DVDs, you can, ah, take a trip to the high seas. Your legally-purchased DVDs serve as a license, for which the digital versions count as allowed "backups".
This is a pattern of thinking with no legal basis.
Over the years I've come around to "just pirate whatever you want". Not for music, where you can actually buy a digital copy and get a real file that you can download and play. But for non-indie video, may as well. The media/legal complex won't give you any credit for trying to be moral about it, and even accessing the DVDs you bought is usually a DMCA violation, so fuck them.
This is a pattern of thinking with no legal basis.
Over the years I've come around to "just pirate whatever you want". Not for music, where you can actually buy a digital copy and get a real file that you can download and play. But for non-indie video, may as well. The media/legal complex won't give you any credit for trying to be moral about it, and even accessing the DVDs you bought is usually a DMCA violation, so fuck them.