Legal Question

[Vyse]

Alright... I love some of the songs from the anime DVDs that I have, my question is that would it be illegal if I copied some of the songs on my DVDs to my PC/CD for personal use?

[Shao Feng-Li]

i dont think so. why should people care about how many sound bytesa person has on their home pc? or if your worried, cut off the last few seconds. its not the same song then. its not what was written by the artist or whatever. not like your gonna sell em or anything.

[ThaKladd]

It's leagal to copy tour own dvd's to your own personal use only. I'ts your cd and you can do what you want with it, except copy it to others or earn money on it by selling copies, or take money when you show it to a crowd....

[shooraijin]

Yep -- most current legal authorities will concur that fair use lets you make as many copies as you like for your personal use provided you don't give them out or use multiple copies at once (i.e., only one copy is in use at any given time, and the copies are only used by you). This is something that the freak-a-zoids responsible for the DMCA and likeminded hogswallop seem to have forgotten.