hmm,
well if youre routed via a us or uk based link point then anything you down/up load is automatically dpi'd as part of the anti terrorism laws (made and passed largley in secret on the back of some other equally sh** laws like the dmca) i sympathise with everyone who wishes to own a legal copy and give a backup to there family members (for use in the same property) but according to the mpaa and the riaa you want a replacement for the broken copy then buy one (they lost 25% sales revenue overnight in the uk with that announcement although it did bounce back up with a killer release a few months later)
i found a legal way to copy any disc to a local data storage device for use within the property of the owner of the original disc so long as single user access is maintained (for pc users at least) and that is get the codec's for windows media player (yes i know it crap and you have to pay for them) and use it to rip the content to a local shared drive, this does not come under the removal of copy protection so long as you dont tick the save without protection icon, furthermore it allows you to share the file (via nas/san device) across a home network and output to any device so long as you use media player to play the files.
i dont understand all the technicalitys of yhow or why it works but as i understand it media player just ignors the copy protection on the file but it does require it to be present for playback to occure, confused so am i but hey ho its legal so long as you dont share run or otherwise access the file(s) via the internet, unfortunatly you are required to maintain an original content disk in your property (attic box is my preferance) and if you have older files that you didnt bother to keep the copy protection (drm crap) on then you wont be able to keep them or you will be breaching the dmca (i know its backwards)
however since i live in the uk i am lucky enough to not have to comply with the DMCA since the law was overturned and its new form is unenforceable against individuals unless they upload files.
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