you guys know you can get USB connectable CD, dvd, and blu-ray players right. and you can buy external hard drives with crazy amounts of space for an amount of money that would make the average person from 2009’s head explode bc of how cheap it is. and if you do this and get ripping software such as handbrake for CDs and DVDs and makeMKV for blurays you can both own a physical copy of whatever media you want and make it accessible to yourself no matter where you are. do you guys know this
lots of people are reblogging this and tagging it #piracy—i should clarify, this is not piracy! ripping DVDs and CDs to have your own copy is fully legal, because it’s your legal right to do what you will with your property individually. it only becomes illegal if you then distribute that file on the internet.
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Yes. Do this. Immediately.
Let's be clear: You have the legal right to make "backup copies" of purchase. If you buy a DVD, Bluray, or CD, you can rip it to watch it on your devices that only accept digital media. Likewise, if you buy a song from iTunes, you can burn a CD.
As long as this is for your personal use, and you own the media in one form, you can move it to another format to make it more accessible for ourself. You have broken zero laws.
(Now is it piracy if you do this with your friends' copies of things or the library's where you don't own the original? Yes. But, uh, if it's never connected to the internet... who's going to catch you?)
