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The reason is simple. It's because fuck you.
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this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2026
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But digitizing your own content isn’t illegal you have the right to backups. It’s when you choose to distribute those copies to people who did not pay for the original product that you get in trouble. This argument makes no sense.
Buying physical media is actually only buying a limited license to use that media yourself, and ripping the content to digitize/backup is technically against the the terms of that license in many cases. It's ridiculous and unenforceable, but true.
Definitely not the case in Europe
It depends on what "your own content" means. Ripping a home movie has no encryption to begin with so you don't break any laws. Ripping a Hollywood movie requires breaking the dvd encryption and that itself is a violation of law.