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In Reply to: Re: why not fair use? posted by Larry S on September 11, 2003 at 12:25:38:
I make copies of my kids' DVDs so they may watch them in a TV-VCR combo unit in the car during long trips or when we're on vacation. Fair use I think. Does that meet with your approval?
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Doesn't matter if I approve. Nor does it matter if it meets with your approval. What matters is whether it is legal, and it's probably not.Does that little FBI warning at the start of the disk mean anything to you? There are lots of laws I don't like - - but I still have to obey them. And guess what, you do too (as those people who are getting nailed for illegal downloads of MP3's are also finding out).
You go ahead and continue making illegal copies, when you should instead be writing your Congressman to have the laws changed. End of thread. I can only wonder what other laws you are breaking because you don't agree with them.
Ok, finally here a process that can be used to make [legal] copies of a DVD to a video tape or DVD recorder. I know this works because I use this process myself.Purchase a digital video mixer known as the MX-1 by Videonics. Put your input into the mixer and connect your recorder to the output. In most cases (depending on your recorder) this will defeat the macrovision copyright protection. If this doesn't work, simply initiate a manual input transition from an input that has no signal to your copyright protected input to about 95% complete but don't transition all the way 100% to the copyrighted input and that will certainly defeat the signal. You'll have to play with this to get a stable full screen picture and defeat the signal at the same time. Try different transition effects (use solids/no dissolves).
You can get a Videonics mixer off eBay for around $80.
Good luck and remember only to do this if making a copy of your own purchased movie to watch on your combo VCR when traveling with kids. ;-)
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