#the court apparently thinks the average computer user is simultaneously stupid and knowledgeable

[haruka89]

Actually, what is or isn't legal depends on the laws of your country. Here, for example, it is illegal to copy dvds etc if you circumvent copy protection mechanisms, regardless of ownership of the physical media in question. Whether that makes sense or what counts as a copy protection mechanism is unfortunately a different story.

Also, you can even get external floppy disc drives you can connect via usb. Any analog media like vhs or audio tapes or [insert english word for the thing that came before cds that's making a comeback now and can't remember the name of] can be digitized.

You could apparently even reroute the speakers of your computer to it's microphone to record whatever audio is playing on your computer. You simply need a cable with headphone jacks at both ends and recording software.

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