copying dvd's

[emom]

Is copying DVD’s that your rent consider a moral sin and stealing if you use it only for personal use?

 

[sweetchuck]

you mean a mortal sin? no. It’s not a mortal sin because it is not grave matter.

Is it a venial sin? Sure, it is against the law. You may feel justified because the entertainment industries have ripped you off all your life, but nevertheless, it is not. God takes care of justice where men fall short.

 

[Della]

We have about 150 tapes that are fast becoming useless as the industry turns over to DVDs exclusively. We spent a lot of money on those tapes and feel perfectly justified in copying them and putting them on DVD.

The local video store would only give us $.25 credit on most of them, which isn’t fair. Privately we can only get $1 a piece for them from people who haven’t yet figured out that once their tape players go down, they will find it harder and harder to buy new ones.

We certainly can’t afford to buy DVDs of all those films and see no need to because we are copying what we already own to be used for our own consumption. The mega-movie corps have expensive lawyers to get legislation passed to keep them all rich. I don’t see that I am obligated to help them do that at our expense.

 

[wisdom_3_5]

The copyright laws allow for one copy to be made for the use of the one purchasing the cd/dvd. Used to be cars had cassette decks not cd players so you could make a tape for your car.

I think the problem comes in when you rent or borrow a cd or dvd and make a copy.

I wonder about individual songs though. . . Could you copy one or two songs from a cd and not be in venial sin? I suppose you could copy from the radio where it has free play although the quality wouldn’t be as good.

Venial sin or no?

 

[Benedictus]

I would suggest that it could be a mortal sin. My favorite Examination of Conscience would suggest that it is a mortal sin, under usual conditions of full knowledge and free consent of the will (click on Mortal Sins and see the last item under the 7th Commandment).

 

[space_ghost]

…the worst sin in the world is the one you don’t ask forgiveness for…

…so when you steal, lie, gossip, all under the guise of "well, esentially i paid for it, or someone else told me and i think it’s the truth, or “it’s not gossip because it’s true:”… these are all sins… but unlike other venial sins we commit, we feel some sort of warped justification for commiting those sins, we consider ourselves some sort of victim and we don’t usually ask forgiveness for them…

…so i fear this type of “sinning with good reason” a very dangerous type of sin, maybe not “mortal” but dangerous none-the-less…

Peace:thumbsup:

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[wisdom_3_5]

Benedictus:

I would suggest that it could be a mortal sin. My favorite Examination of Conscience would suggest that it is a mortal sin, under usual conditions of full knowledge and free consent of the will (click on Mortal Sins and see the last item under the 7th Commandment).

Thanks for that website! Quite a detailed examination. Nice to know what I’m dealing with and whether I’m being too scrupulous(?) or not.

 

[Ray_Scheel]

Della:

We have about 150 tapes that are fast becoming useless as the industry turns over to DVDs exclusively. We spent a lot of money on those tapes and feel perfectly justified in copying them and putting them on DVD.

~ There are no legal issues in doing this. It is not a bad idea in general to keep the tapes from wearing out, plus those copies are handy to use in the portable DVD player when on the road with the kids. Just be sure not to sell a tape that you are keeping a DVD copy of - the copy has to stay with the owner of the original.

Della:

from people who haven’t yet figured out that once their tape players go down, they will find it harder and harder to buy new ones.

This isn’t as big a concern as it might seem. It is still possible to buy both records and record players (as well as 8-track players, and I think someone is making 8 track tapes again too). Personally, I’m buying up the $1 VHS tapes of “newer” movies I’m interested in so I do have a legitimate copy to convert to DVD for perosnal use.

There does come a time where owners of information on certain media need to get it into a newer format just to avoid the media itself failing. I still have a couple of workign 5.25 floppy drive, and the biggest troube I ahve with the old floppies when copying them onto the coputer (to then archive to CD) is that many of the disks are unreadable as the magnetic signal fades, which will eventually happen to the VHS tapes too. That’s a bigger threat than not being able to find a VHS player during the lifespan of tapes being sold today.