So when you buy a copy of a book, the publisher also has to supply free copies in any other medium you wish? Why?
or that I can copy my DVDs for backup purposes...
When you buy other products do you get a free copy thrown in with the deal? Like, 2 coffee makers, in case the first one breaks down? DVD's and CD's are among the most durable products you can purchase; why do you need a backup?
Your mind is made up. You're not debating - anyone could answer the question you posed. You shilling for money or for free?
Quite frankly, that's none of your business - using the same logic, why do you need a backup of a cassette or a book or a magazine or a videotape?
The "why" is immaterial.
You want to debate the logic of actually getting it, fine. But when you get into challenging the "why", you begin treading on an individuals sovreign rights. For all you know, the backup copy is so that the original can be crushed in a compactor. As long as the copy is not being sold, it shouldn't matter.
Allow me to prove that you need backups. I'll let my 3 year old next to your CD / DVD collection (he treats them like frisbees).
Who said anything about the publisher having to supply such copies?
There is a very long-standing practice that someone who purchases a copyrighted work also purchases the rights to do certain things with that work. Even going back before the days of computers and photocopiers, it was recognized that certain types of transcription were both reasonable and proper. For example, someone who wished to record(*) a version of a piece of music on a saxophone quarted would be expected to transcribe the music into the keys necessary for the different instruments. The person would be required to purchase as many copies of the parts as would be necessary without copying(**) but would not have to pay anything extra for the transcription rights unless the transcriptions themselves were distributed.
(*) It would be necessary to obtain a compulsory license for the recording within 30 days of its production; this license would not have any associated fees or payments, however, unless or until the recording was sold or otherwise distributed. If the recording ended up being shelved no fees would be due.The RIAA, in insisting that music must never be copied in any form, is going against very long-standing tradition. Their position would be much more supportable if they were to require that a copy of a work be purchased for every copy which is in use.(**) Generally this would imply one part per person, though if the original purchased music printed e.g. first and second clarinet parts on the same page and the transcription listed first and second saxophone on the same page, it would probably be acceptable to have both players reading off the same copy of the transcription. Note, however, that if only the second-saxophone part had to be transposed, it would probably be necessary either to transcribe both parts onto the same new page (off of which both performers would play) or else buy two copies of the page (one of which would be used as-is, and the other of which would be transposed).
BTW, CD's can and do go bad.
You've never lived in a house with young kids, have you? The things get dropped, stepped on, etc. One scratch and they're useless.
Straw-man argument. The publisher of a book does not supply me with a microfilm copy, but he doesn't complain if I choose to create one for my own purposes, nor does he complain if I choose to scan a purchased book into my PC for my own purposes
No one I know of is demanding this right. What we are demanding is to be left the hell alone in regard to how we use our DVDs and other media in our homes, cars, computers, etc. If I buy a DVD I should have a legal right to convert its data to a VCD for viewing on one of my older PCs. You are guilty of a felony under the DMCA if you do that.
I'm sure others have seen tons of other ways where the CD is somewhat less sturdy than, say, Stonehenge.
Because sometimes my wife borrows my CDs. Weeks later, I find them in the flooboard of her SUV, caked with makeup and with my daughter's footprints and fingerprints on them. Sometimes I rescue them just in time. Sometimes they are a total loss. Now, when I buy a CD, I always make a CDR copy and give that to her.
Until you allow my wife to borrow your CD collection, you're just blowing smoke.
Do you stand by this statement, or do you retract it after having been educated?
We'll settle it now, Bloody Sam Roberts - either he stands by it or he retracts it.