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by Mindwipe 1624 days ago
> depends on what country you live in. Not everyone lives in the USA

As anti-DRM circumvention laws are a requirement of membership of the WTO, there are very few functioning countries that do not have them. The US law is not exceptional, nor even particularly stringent in this area.
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Fire-Dragon-DoL 1624 days ago
I'm pretty sure you are allowed to "rip dvds" (and circumvent their protection in the process) to do so, for backup, in Italy. I think it might apply to the whole EU, but I could be wrong
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Mindwipe 1624 days ago
No, you aren't. Italy has an anti-circumvention law that expressly prohibits this, and that law is a codification of an EU directive common across the entire EU.

You are allowed backup unprotected DVDs in Italy, but not protected ones.

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