Michael Jennings wrote: >On Tuesday, 28 December 2004, at 12:42:31 (-0500), >Chris Hammond wrote: > > > >>Is it illegal to rip a DVD to a file on your hard drive for personal >>use? >> >> > >I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice. > >As I understand it, using any technology (like DeCSS and similar >tools, namely libdvdcss) to circumvent cryptographic protection (like >that on most commercial DVD's) is a violation of the DMCA. This is >why distributions like cAos, CentOS, etc. do not have it but certain >foreign repositories do. Those outside the US are very likely okay, >but those of us in the US are hosed. > >Michael > > > This is true. His email did reference libdvdcss. I was thinking just ripping a dvd to a personal machine but I do understand the css thing. Yes, we are screwed aren't we? :| Chris