On: The Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared

[pjc50]

Ripping Blu-rays for personal use is copyright infringement in many jurisdictions. I'm not sure whether anyone's actually been prosecuted for it though.

[vacri → pjc50]

It'll be interesting to see what happens in Australia. Not too many years ago, format shifting (eg CD -> mp3) for personal use was declared legal by the courts here.

[hugh4 → pjc50]

Same deal with videoing stuff off TV, in the days when people did that. Illegal in most jurisdictions, investigated and punished in none.

[WaltPurvis → hugh4]

Recording TV shows with a VCR was not and is not illegal in the United States. In what jurisdictions is it (nominally) illegal?

[dexterdog → pjc50]

The solution to that is what they're already doing which is moving everything online. I watch movies all of the time and I still have yet to watch a single thing played off of a BluRay and I know nobody who uses them.

Fortunately there will likely never be a way to stop people from ripping video and audio from a display.