Rob Pegoraro writes, "Over the past two days, two different commercial DVD-copying programs have gotten shot down by court rulings
link here. " The judge found that copying DVDs for backup was perfectly legal, but Congress in its wisdom and under the spell of Hollywood, forbade making machines to do so.
After explaining the ins-and-outs, Pegararo notes that this is a pyrrhic vistory since anyone wishing to copy DVDs can use two free downloadable programs, Hand Brake (http://handbrake.fr/) and DVD43
(http://dvd43.com/) for a Mac and 32-bit Windows. He offers another free way for 64-bit Windows.
A victory for freedom.
Notice the .fr in handbrake.fr. "Viva le France!" The DMCA and Internet Oligopoly is driving America's place in the tech world backwards. Soon we will be dependent on foreign nations for providing technological freedom.