As the writer states, I have made back-up copies for years for only my own use and never, never to re-sell! In the early '50s, we had a turntable with a special arm and needle that would allow us to record radio programs and music again for our own use on 78 rpm wax records. We now use a Sony DVD recorder with a nice 2" screen so we can see what we are doing and use it mainly to record programs to watch at a later, more convenient date using a DVD/CD player at our "cabin-in-the-woods" that has very limited TV reception. I can play and copy DVDs using this unit. I also have a DIMAX filter that eliminates any video interference we may get from various TV programming. Any original DVDs or CDs we purchase only from properly authorized sites and our copying them is strictly our own business and no one else. We would never attempt or in any way try to re-sell any of these which would be absolutely against our code of fairness. If we have to buy them new, so does everyone else as far as we are concerned.

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