Originally posted by: Karyudo
Canada does not have DMCA-style copyright legislation (as it shouldn't), so I don't think you can automatically lump Canada in with those other anti-consumer copyright regimes. I have never read that making a backup of a DVD you own is illegal in Canada. I'm quite sure, in fact, that the 'fair dealing provision' still allows it.
It's not anti-consumer, it protects the copyright holder. Anti-consumer is region-coding, and encrypted video-out. There's nothing anti-consumer about preventing your product from being copied. I don't have a single problem with HD-DVD and Blu-Ray using the highest levels of encryption to prevent 1:1 digital copies - but I do have a huge problem with them using regions (imagine if home PC's were region-coded) and enforcing encrypted video-out (if free-to-air TV can't do that, why can they?) Although backing up CD's appears to be legal in Canada - backing up DVD's certainly isn't - unless you have intangible legal proof? Canada does not have DMCA-style copyright legislation (as it shouldn't), so I don't think you can automatically lump Canada in with those other anti-consumer copyright regimes. I have never read that making a backup of a DVD you own is illegal in Canada. I'm quite sure, in fact, that the 'fair dealing provision' still allows it.