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Re:Amazon deleted my Final Space digital purchases of season... by User23 on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @07:35PM (#33014569)
If anyone has Lexis I’d love to know if there’s any caselaw on the intersection of the right to make backups vs the anti-circumvention provisions. One could certainly argue that making a lawful backup isn’t a circumvention.
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Re:Amazon deleted my Final Space digital purchases of season... by 29083011397778 on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @10:08PM (#33015567)
Not a lawyer, but have been curious about this before. Last I checked, format shifting is legal in Canada. Breaking even the known-broken DVD encryption, however, is illegal. We also appear to still pay a blank media tax. Considering I back up important documents to blank CDs every few months, the Music And Film Induatry of America [0] is still being paid, and so I pirate with a (relatively) clear conscience.

[0] Not the real acronym, but this one allows me to call the media conglomerates the MAFIA for a bit of a giggle

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