Originally Posted by
Cyanotical
again, gray area, you are allowed a backup copy, but you can't modify the copy, i don't know if any legal statements have been updated for digital media, so my assumption is that it would be like dvds, you can copy it, but it has to be an exact copy, in the original format, with all the DRM included
most of us see things very fluidly, and only consider differences between h.264 and AVI as a quality/size thing, but to a lawyer, your backup of a DVD needs to be an ISO (if they even understand what that means), ripping the movie into 264 or AVI would be copyright infringement