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Movie "backups" defense... (Netflix related)

XnMeX - 1-8-2010 at 12:10 PM

A friend of mine who burns dvds brought up this argument...

"I have a Netflix account. ALL the movies I have DVD copies of are availible on Netflix. So, if I have access to all these movies at anytime I want, is it still illegal for me to have these DVD copies?"

I thought it was a pretty good argument!


Dave - 1-8-2010 at 01:17 PM

yes, he doesn't own them.

JawnDiablo - 1-8-2010 at 02:06 PM

aside from DVDs of music footage I have very little desire to actually own any these days.
In most cases, i watch something one time and never want to see it again, unless it is really special.
Plus it's just more shit I have to find some place to put it.

Six66Mike - 1-8-2010 at 08:17 PM

I started to convert some DVD's to digital, mostly because our DVD player is broken and I want to catch up on Family Guy but it just takes so damn long to encode the things so I stopped doing it. $50 for a new DVD player sounds good.

I have been backing up all my CD's to FLAC though, encoding is much quicker and you can do 10-20 albums a day if you get on a good roll.