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saspro
Site Admin
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 5:53 pm
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Location: location, location
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Buying anydvd isn't illegal. Using it to bypass copy protection is. You also don't buy the DVD so-to-speak. You do purchase a bit of plastic but you're actually buying a licence to watch the film on that DVD
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| Fri Nov 27, 2009 12:08 pm |
 
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big_D
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:25 pm
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Location: Bramsche
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Here, you can make a "reasonable" number of copies - the justice minister said 10 sounds reasonable - of music or films, and you can give them as gifts to friends and family...
BUT you cannot make a copy if there is any form of copy protection or DRM on the media.
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finlay666
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:40 pm
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Location: Newcastle
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Buy an external DVD drive, they aren't expensive and a useful thing to have anyway. Your licence is to watch from the dvd, not via any other means _________________TwitterCharlie Brooker: Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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hifidelity2
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 1:03 pm
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Location: London
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True but the whole point of netbooks is to have a small lightweight system and an extra DVD drive will just add to the weight / clutter
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finlay666
Spends far too much time on here
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For which you sacrifice watching DVDs on due to no optical drive. Get the external drive or buy it in digital form _________________TwitterCharlie Brooker: Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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Linux_User
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:29 pm
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There won't be a need for an external DVD drive soon - the government intends to modify copyright laws to make "format-shifting" legal.
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finlay666
Spends far too much time on here
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So you can burn a cd with mp3's you buy online or vice versa DVDs would still be illegal as you are breaking copyright encryption, unless that is addressed also _________________TwitterCharlie Brooker: Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.
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Linux_User
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:29 pm
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No, home users are not committing a criminal offence by circumventing copy protection mechanisms, only those acting in the course of a business. And even then, I expect exemptions to come in with the new law.
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pcernie
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Privacy activist "will quit job to take on Virgin Media"http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/353824/priv ... rgin-mediaVM may well regret this in the long run...
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pcernie
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1.6 million Virgin customers will be part of the trialhttp://www.techradar.com/news/internet/ ... als-657287Begs the question, how many customers have VM got if those are the trial numbers?  
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LaptopAcidXperience
Occasionally has a life
Joined: Fri May 08, 2009 10:01 am
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Virgin said 40% of their users, so assuming 1.6 million is 40% well I'm to ill to do the maths, hold on it's just come to me, 20% is 800,000 multiply by 5 = 4 million.
Ernie i'm sorry if your question was rhetorical, i feel like i'm tripping.
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pcernie
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That's alright, I can't remember if the question was rhetorical and I was never any good at maths anyway   _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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