Retrace hash with DVD player?

[jeyurkon]

Originally Posted by Jeffhs

Macrovision is used on DVDs to prevent illegal copying. (The DMCA, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which was enacted in 2000, means business, and yes, people have been arrested, fined and sent to prison for illicitly copying music CDs, downloading MP3 files, and let us not forget the illegal copying of DVDs.) Therefore, I think it would be unethical at best and illegal at worst to defeat the protection. If you want to own a...

This was pretty well hashed out in earlier threads. No one was talking about copying in this one unless I missed it. There's nothing illegal or unethical with defeating Macrovision if you're just trying to watch it on an old set. There's no copyright infringement. It becomes illegal when you start making copies.

John