Archiving Your Digital MediaMost digital media can be ripped onto a home hard drive or backed up onto another disc for your personal use under the “Fair Use” laws (LEARN HOW), depending on where you live. However, circumventing encryption on commercial DVDs makes this illegal under the “Digital Millennium Copyright Act”. The best solution is to insure optimum playability of your DVD/CD movies, music and software.
| Why Owning Physical Media (Not Digital) is Still the Best OptionWhen you own the actual disc of an entertainment media, you can use and play it at your own discretion--- when and where you want. It has been argued that Digital Rights Management (DRM), which comes with most streamed media, is not really owned by the consumer, even if the consumer pays for it.
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