but surely not changing the law is more pointless as everyone just assumes that they can have "fair use" anyway so it really can't be enforced.
Perfect example of "Morality defines law". People believe they have a right to backup their own stuff, so they do. It then becomes law (or will do!).
This seems mad to me. Basically you have the legal right to copy digital content to other digital formats for your personal use unless the publisher decides you can't by putting any form of copy protection on the media, which you cannot legally bypass. So the publisher basically decides your rights. If they start putting copy protection on audio CDs (however feeble), does this mean people can't convert them to MP3? If rather than bypassing the copy protection on the video file contained on the DVD, I make a digital copy by capturing the video output as it is played then am I in the clear? The mind boggles.
they tried putting copy protection on cd's but doing that is against the cd specification, and it therefore can't have the cd moniker on it. remember the big hoohar over a certain rootkit, that broke windows pc's
