Well, here's my best shot:
When your bottom line is harmed by DVD copying, you tend to be very sensitive about it. While many people would consider actually backing up a DVD to be "fair use", most people who use that technology use it for more than that. It's impossible to differentiate between those who honestly want to "back up" and those who just say that.

And this site relies on information, advertising, and cooperation from the industry. So even if the individuals who ran the forum didn't care about copying, as a site they do.

Hope that helps.

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Thanks. That was a really honest answer. I understand the sensitivity regarding the matter. But, if you apply the policy to prevent people from even mentioning backing up files or what is in their hard drives, then it's like pretending that the elephant which is in the room isn't actually there. It also flies in the face of the free speech stance typically espoused by the porn industry.

Croy,

There is no nefarious motive to my question. Honestly. I'm just concerned about a policy that appears to be overly censoring.

Edited by - Midtown on 1/31/2006 10:30:51 PM

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ADT has a strong level of particpation from members of the industry. That's something that we would all like to continue.

Given those two facts, ADT would prefer not to have that discussion of copying DVD's here.

It's not like the same information is not available elsewhere on the Internet. If making fair use copies of DVD's is important to you, finding this information elsewhere shouldn't be all that burdensome.

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This site is kept active by members, all the stars, and people that work in the industry. If they noticed that there were threads about how to "backup" some of their product, they would tend to stop coming here to talk about their new releases and such since, as croy said, it would start hitting them on the bottom line.

That being said, backups are fair use, but the threads quickly dissolve into how to duplicate copyrighted material. Slippery slope and all. This is against the law. The owners of this site have decided, and rightly so IMHO, that these threads are not welcome here.

Free speech doesn't even enter into it. There are other places to go for that type of information if you so desire, its just not going to be here.

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"Unencrypted?"

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"At the heart of the legal issues is the Content Scrambling System (CSS) encryption installed on almost all commercial DVDs. This encryption is intend to block piracy (or at least make it more difficult), but it also gets in the way of making legitimate copies, such as backups. Technically, CSS didn't prove to be much protection; software to break it appeared soon after the first encrypted DVDs hit the market. But the Digital Millennium Copyright Act outlaws the sale, distribution, and use of tools intended to break copy protection, regardless of whether they have legitimate uses."

So, if a DVD is unencrypted, then it's fair game to be copied. And, even if it is encrypted, the illegality in copying that DVD is not in the copying of the DVD itself (which could be construed as being for "fair use"), but in the "use of tools intended to break copy protection."

Edited by - Midtown on 1/31/2006 11:17:34 PM

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HD-DVD or Blue-Ray should have a good encryption....

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Frankly I don't have a clue what this thread has to do with porn?
If you buy your porn legally, you don't need to ask all these questions.

Come on, let's discuss Devon's scene in "My first porn 2".
Is it an anal scene or not?

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Regardless of your intent in discussing DVD copying techniques, any such discussion on an open forum is grist for the pirates mill. This should be obvious. If being asked not to discuss copying DVD's is too much of an imposition on you, then the obvious solution is for you to go to some other site.

I think we're done here.

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