Yes, but do you understand that there are a lot of seemingly legal activities that are rendered illegal by the Digital Millenium Copyright Act?
Consider the example of music legally purchased by others on this thread who are will no longer be able to listen to the paid for songs due to Microsoft turning off the servers that verified that they paid for the song. They paid for the song, MS did not tell them they were only renting it temporarily, So a user may feel justified in copying that song to a non-protected format, ie. mp3. To do so is to defeat the DRM, an act explicitly declared illegal under the DMCA. Similarly, want to back up that legally purchased DVD before you hand it over to your eight year old? Or Copy the movie onto your laptop for later viewing? Same thing, copyright violation. Want to convert the songs on your legally purchased CD to mp3 for your mp3 player, but the CD has copy protection on it? Boom, DMCA violation.
Our party is as bought and paid for by the **AA in the area as the Dems. Our guys just came a lot cheaper.
I would never assume that it's OK to copy a DVD or CD. While it may seem reasonable to be able to make a "backup" copy, what's to stop someone from making 12 copies and selling them on eBay? I've seen plenty of fake ripoff DVD's for sale on eBay. I think that people acquire a sense of entitlement when it comes to copyrighted material. But songs and movies cost time and money to create. Where is it written that just because you pay $16 for a CD, you should be able to make another one just like it? Remember the old days, when you went to the theater and paid $20 for your family to see a movie one time? If you wanted to see it again, you had to pay another $20. We should just be happy that we can now purchase a disk and play it repeatedly for the whole clan at no additional expense.