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by stronglikedan 12 days ago
> Also, “Buying” the movie and making a copy of it for personal use shouldn’t be illegal.

Unless I missed something recently, it's not illegal. You've always had the right to make backups of content that you purchased legally. It's the distribution that has been illegal.

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It is legal to rip a digital copy of a movie you purcahsed from itunes to your hard drive?

I would have assumed it would have at least been against whatever TOC you agreed to when signing up to itunes.