{"id":2250,"date":"2009-03-21T16:02:32","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T16:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2250"},"modified":"2009-03-21T16:02:32","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T16:02:32","slug":"fair_use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2250","title":{"rendered":"Fair Use"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve started ripping some of my DVD collection onto my computer for those rainy days or late nights when I feel like an episode of MST3K or Doctor Who but I don’t want bother with asking someone to pop in a DVD for me. The DVDs are encrypted to prevent such copying, but anyone with rudimentary geek skills can get past the encryption and compress the video into computer files. I already purchased the discs legally, so the guilt factor is nonexistent for me. It does give my processor a workout and the hard drive is starting to fill up. Good thing 1TB hard drives can be had for under $100. <\/p>\n

This archiving effort may become moot once every bit of content ever made can be pulled down from the cloud, but I think my computer appreciates the chance to do something else besides search the web for the latest pictures of women in fishnets. <\/p>\n

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I’ve started ripping some of my DVD collection onto my computer for those rainy days or late nights when I feel like an episode of MST3K or Doctor Who but I don’t want bother with asking someone to pop in a DVD for me. The DVDs are encrypted to prevent such copying, but anyone with […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9Iwau-fair_use","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}