Watching DVD's on Linux is ILLEGAL in the USA?

[Michael Butash]

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.)