Current Events > If you own the DVDs, does that give you the right to watch digitally for free?

(+) Yeah! (+)

Both the official stance and legal wise. and moral wise

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Official and legal probably not, legal I say go ahead.

Was thinking of this for The Simpsons, don't feel like trying to fish out all the dvds of the seasons I own

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Legally no.

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I have a ridiculous number of DVDs and Blurays. Now most newer things do come with a digital code and that is definitely awesome, but for those things that don't or older stuff that I've had a while or whatever... it's just a lot easier to run a media server and stream stuff to any TV in my house and be able to start and stop whenever, etc, instead of finding a DVD and potentially having to finish it in another room later, etc.

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Yah it's just more convenient

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The Top Crusader posted...

Now most newer things do come with a digital code and that is definitely awesome

If you want to create an account with a couple dozen different services, download a couple dozen clients and/or apps, and have little or no interoperability beyond PC, Mac, and phones, then okay.

Fair Use would almost apply, with DMCA treating the very thin encryption as the legal brick wall getting in the way.

Questionmarktarius posted...

If you want to create an account with a couple dozen different services, download a couple dozen clients and/or apps, and have little or no interoperability beyond PC, Mac, and phones, then okay.

Fair Use would almost apply, with DMCA treating the very thin encryption as the legal brick wall getting in the way.

I'd say 90%+ of newer stuff is all comfortably on Vudu. But yeah it isn't everything new/older stuff.

Best I can tell I could legally rip my own media and put it on a server but owning the physical media but then acquiring the digital copy through other means would still be illegal.

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Morally yes, unless you were just careless with your DVD and got it all scratched up then you're a bad customer and deserve to have to purchase/license it again.
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The Top Crusader posted...

Best I can tell I could legally rip my own media and put it on a server

Not really no.
If you have to decrypt the DVD (which is essentially all of them), you're breaking the law.

its not legal, but will anyone actually care?

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Questionmarktarius posted...

Not really no.
If you have to decrypt the DVD (which is essentially all of them), you're breaking the law.

Is it part of that warning they put on the DVDs?
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