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Forum: General Photography
09-19-2015, 11:47 AM
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I'm not a lawyer and even then it probably takes a specialized one in copyright law to know all this. But I believe taking a copy of a video or picture is technically not grounds to be arrested because you have not stolen anything. The owner still has the original. But it can be illegal if the content has been encrypted, I think.
Purchased DVD/Blu-rays have secret, proprietary encryption. And the software to decrypt it has to be licensed. Most likely big business saw the discrepancy in the law about taking copies of things vs stealing physical property and since they have lots of money can push and pass the Digital Millennium Copyright Act which makes it a crime to circumvent the encryption.
That is what they can arrest you for not so much the act of taking copies of things. The owner has to pursue compensation in the courts for that, I believe. But like I said I'm not a lawyer and this subject is complicated.
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Forum: General Photography
09-17-2015, 12:57 PM
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The FBI warning about copyright infringement you see at the start of DVD/Blu-ray really ticks me off. Here big business is saying the tax payer is going flip the bill to enforce and protect their Intellectual Property ( which is the owner's job and expense; not the law). But you and me have little chance of the FBI ever helping us enforce and protect our IP.
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