I wanted to make sure that I won’t get in trouble before I start burning dvd’s. I usually rent a lot of movies, I will probaly record the ones they really like not all the rentals. Most of them for my kids, Is it against the law to record this movies for my personal use? I have heard a lot of people doing it. I won’t sell them, I will probaly make one copy for my personal use. I just can’t affort to pay .00 to .00 for each movie. Is it agains the law to record them. I purchase $ these programs that will help me burn dvd’s I have the key numbers. What I know is that it against the law to sell them or downlow them from the internet.
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Bake says
Nope!
It’s not against the law if it is deemed an archival copy – i.e. for your personal use. I Netflix and do the EXACT same thing. WAY less expensive.
Burn On, Brother!
Grogster says
Perhaps someone from USA will comment here, but where I live(New Zealand), is is TOTALLY ILLEGAL to copy any orignal media to another medium – including coping rental tapes or DVD’s – even for your own personal use.
I doubt that this would be classified as legal…
Read the copyright notices on the rented DVD/VHS.
You will find it worded something like: "This Video Cassette/DVD may not be copied, shown in public, edited etc, in any form whatsoever. Individuals face up to $250,000 fine per offense or 3-months jail time, corporations face up to $500,000 per offense."
…something like that, but suffice it to say, that I would be very surprised if copying rental movies was in any way legal whatsoever…
xfire_2 says
It is against the law to make copies of DVDs unless you hold the copyright (i.e. you filmed the movie yourself). _Every_ work of art has an implied copyright whether displayed or not. So unless the copyright holder gives you permission- do not copy the disk. There are certain exclusions: if you own (not RENT!) a DVD you might be allowed to make an archival copy.