worknman24-7 - 02 October 2009 12:45 PM

I am presently recording to my cable providers (Cox) dvr without any problem.

I have no intention of recording to dvd.

The use of removable and therefore mass reproducable media is controlled because that then takes away from the ability of the original producer of the program to charge for any subsequent dvd sales they might produce.

Recording dvd's of copyrighted programs without the written permission of the owner of the copyright is illegal.

Whether it is done just to have for later,to give a few freebees to some friends or to mass produce in the thousands and market at the races.

Anyone on this website that continues to discuss how to record a copyrighted program on recordable media and the methods necessary to defeat the copyright protection from the original source is actually breaking the law.

Nothing on the internet is faceless.

All of our computers have ip addresses and internet service providers that ip address goes through.

I would urge you to not talk about defeating any type of copyrighted broadcast for the purpose of recording it on removable media any further.

As aggressive as Formula One Property management is at deleting anonymous F1 based videos on the internet,I can definitely see them taking an interest in this thread,reporting it to the FBI and the FBI following through with the necessary prosection of those doing this sort of thing.

There have been many high profile prosecution cases lately of people making copies of copyrighted audio material just on their hard drives and sharing that with other people over the internet.

Some of those people got jail time and stupendously high fines.

I hope I am still able to record the programs to dvr but if I can't I will likely just stay up and watch the broadcast or miss the race altogether.

Paranoid?

Not really.

I just don't have the money that the government has if the Feds come to ask you why you were posting about such things and telling people how to defeat them.