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Derwood,
Do you mean "Legal" or "something the publishers want you do do"?
Software alliances are generally against any copying, be it piracy or fair use. Essentially the same as other media interests: printed, audio, or video. Fair Use came about as a common sense exception for when copying is legal even if the media companies would rather it wasn't. Media interests have been trying to reverse that decision for years and managed to cloud the issue with the DMCA. They continue on other fronts and may complete the picture with DRM, once it's entrenched. The DMCA and DRM together effectively make Fair Use impossible to practice legally. I expect eventually the pendulum will swing back again, hopefully before everybody with a library of scratched DVDs takes to the streets hunting for publishing executives.
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