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Post #93480

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ADigitalMan
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STAR WARS: The Torrents thread
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Date created
15-Feb-2005, 7:39 PM
Originally posted by: eros
As long as you have an official version of star wars on vhs,vcd,ld or dvd they can't touch you. You bought the right to the licence to play back that material. AND your entitled to own a backup. End of story.


Though that isn't 100% true, it would make the case much harder to prosecute. You'd actually be better protected if you had a laserdisc than if you had a copy of the DVD. Since the majority of the OT backups are from laserdisc, you could easily argue that you have an archival copy.