In practice, you’re very unlikely to get into trouble for ripping a DVD to your Mac. Some courts have tried to leaven this rather harsh rule, but most have not.” “The moment you crack DRM to rip the DVD, you’ve violated Title I of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act,”Ĭomments Derek Bambauer, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Arizona. In the US, things are murkier but most legal experts would tell you that the key factor is whether the DVD has copyright protection such as a DRM (Digital Rights Management).
But this was later quashedīy a High Court ruling in 2015, which insinuated that the government was wrong to allow the public to make copies of CDs and DVDs on the basis that there would be no compensation for those whose copyright was infringed.
In 2014, the British government introduced the Copyright and Rights in Performances (Personal Copies for Private Use) Regulations 2014, which as the name suggests allowed users to copy digital media, including DVDs and Blu-rays, for personal use.
