[FreedomCalls]

It all comes back to permissions - it may seem like a nicety, but it really does matter. You can chop up a film, and the studios aren't going to notice or come after the TChris household; you're small potatoes.

Now you are implying that it is illegal for TChris to edit his own copy in his own home for his own use just that no one will notice if he does. Is it legal or is it not legal to edit one's own copy in one's own house for one's own personal use?

[Stone Mountain]

Is it legal or is it not legal to edit one's own copy in one's own house for one's own personal use?

My understanding is that it's legal as long as that person doesn't try to distribute it. You can do what you want to your own copy of a movie, just like you can underline and strike out passages in a book you own. But you can't distribute that book or movie that you altered.