Multimedia forum: Do you back up your store-bought CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray media?

I enters as "yes", I do make a copy, but what I do is copy the CD to a mini-disc to use at work. If I were to sell the CD, I'd delete the contents of the mini-disc. The license follows the media.

Other than a couple of software CDs that I purchased recently, I have not bought any CDs, DVDs, or Blue Ray media anytime in the past several years. To me, CDs are like 8 track and cassette audio tapes. I don't have any of them around either. I have Flash Drives, SDs, CFs, and Hard drives, and that is the only storage mechanisms that I have around.I have some audio CDs and Video DVDs around, but hardly ever watch them. they are located in a Sony 300 CD/DVD player. All of my audio CDs that I have made mp3s of are there. None of the DVDs have a back up. It is amazing how fast you can drop out of using that technology when you have mp3 players and HDTV DVRs that you record your video on. I am in the 21st century now, and try to not go back to last centuries media.

If I know that a Disk (whatever kind) has DRM controls on it, I will not buy it. I got one once and I wanted to play the movie on my computer while my wife was watching the main system upstairs. It would not even let me play it. Fortunately for the most part, I like old movies and it seems that most of them do not include that nefarious protection scheme.

IMHO the Copyrights act is an attempt by the media moguls to protect an archaic business model and does not recognize that we are now in the 21st century. The sooner they come up with a new business model that recognizes this, the better off we will all be -- them included. There are many that bite and must have the latest -- I will not. I suspect that their revenue could be a lot higher if they would recognize this, come up with a new business model that did not depend on the DRM stuff and get rid of the encryption. They are catching some little fish now and then -- but I have not heard of a single big outfit that has been caught. You can bet they are out there someplace. If there is money to be made illegally, someone is going to try to do it big scale. I feel sure there is equipment out there that can defeat the encryption easily and thus enable the making of many (millions?) of bootleg copies of anything. If these media moguls would get smart and come up with a new business model that does not depend on the encryption process, they would put these bad guys out of business in an instant and get more money in their coffers in the long run.

Did anyone ever say big business was smart? Not me!

I sometimes back up CD's but only if i might take them to a party or friends house in case it gets lost.
As a general note,i would think it ok to back up every CD bought,as I paid for it I can see no reason not to (except for counterfeiting)which is not right anyway.