I'm mostly impressed that the OP actually expected to get a serious discussion to be honest. Although it appears a few respondents have made the effort.
But the only thing that seems to count, in the end, is the industry empowers me to pirate.
While the law merely whines from behind badly written, entirely vague, unenforcible laws. Which vary country to country, without much consistency.
So long as buying entirely unnecessary spindles of blank media is a cheap as dirt, the message will be clear enough for me.
No one really seriously cares.
Because you can't copy if you have nothing to copy on to.
And if you honestly need back up media, you don't need it to the tune of 30 bucks per hundred disks.
The industry has spoken.
I merely listened.
I don't care what the courts are saying.
It's not relevant what the laws are, precisely.
Which explains largely why I basically never spend effort trying to digest their long winded convoluted lawyer-speak drivel.
But the only thing that seems to count, in the end, is the industry empowers me to pirate.
While the law merely whines from behind badly written, entirely vague, unenforcible laws. Which vary country to country, without much consistency.
So long as buying entirely unnecessary spindles of blank media is a cheap as dirt, the message will be clear enough for me.
No one really seriously cares.
Because you can't copy if you have nothing to copy on to.
And if you honestly need back up media, you don't need it to the tune of 30 bucks per hundred disks.
The industry has spoken.
I merely listened.
I don't care what the courts are saying.
It's not relevant what the laws are, precisely.
Which explains largely why I basically never spend effort trying to digest their long winded convoluted lawyer-speak drivel.