Yea, I have to agree with you. I would think the law would side on fair
use for transcoded archives. It would be a gamble though. A dd'd copy
would be a shorter case though. :) 





On 03/02/2013 07:14 PM, Michael Butash wrote:
> Yeah, but who wants to keep 4.5gb iso's for 720p video at best. 
> You're looking at 30-45gb for bluray backups now for 1080p, if you
> could decrypt them from an iso (which I'm pretty sure you still can't,
> outside a ps3 with linux/cfw).  With h.264 you're looking at roughly
> 1/3-1/2 the storage.  Same as mp3/ogg/flac for reduced-size archives
> of my cd music too.
>
> This alone is worth "illegal" decryption/ripping to encode with a
> better/effective codec if nothing else for personal archival copies of
> owned media and save space.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On 03/02/2013 06:51 PM, Jason Spatafore wrote:
>>
>> You still, however, are not permitted to decode the DVD and make illegal
>> copies. The archival clauses of fair use *do* apply if you are making a
>> backup of the DVD itself. However, a "back up" is a mirror image, so you
>> must include the encryption in your backup. (To do so on Linux, you can
>> use DD to make your backup instead of a DVD ripper tool.)
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