its interesting to see this come up because it blatently violates the license for dvd's and I don't think fair use rights cover companies in the US for media servers? I like the idea though this is definately the most reasonably priced media server solution I've seen I wonder how much the pro series is.
given the "32 dvd's in 160GB" I'd say they are probably just ripping the ISO to HDD and then point the dvd player software at it saying that the iso is a dvd device (linux is awesome like that). So they aren't cracking any encryption, and they have a license as a player, and YOU have the right to make a backup. So, Fair Use is covering this one.
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Mike D @ Jan 31st 2007 8:05AM
its interesting to see this come up because it blatently violates the license for dvd's and I don't think fair use rights cover companies in the US for media servers? I like the idea though this is definately the most reasonably priced media server solution I've seen I wonder how much the pro series is.
Josh @ Jan 31st 2007 12:14PM
And ripping CDs to your computer to listen to them isn't a good enough precedent?
Chris @ Jan 31st 2007 1:18PM
given the "32 dvd's in 160GB" I'd say they are probably just ripping the ISO to HDD and then point the dvd player software at it saying that the iso is a dvd device (linux is awesome like that). So they aren't cracking any encryption, and they have a license as a player, and YOU have the right to make a backup. So, Fair Use is covering this one.