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Old May 11, 2011 | 10:02 am
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I just bought a new RCA dual vhs to dvd machine which works fine for my own tapes from tv. My problem is when copying movie vhs (about 30 of them) which won't copy (pops up with "video is copy protected".
Any way of getting around this? Some of these tapes are 10-12 years old and i'm afraid they may get outdated and break the tapes.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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Old May 11, 2011 | 10:22 am
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First, you need authorization from the creators of the tapes, and/or determination that you have the legal right to make a personal backup copy under fair use provisions. If this is true, a Google search turns up many solutions, such asthis one
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Old May 17, 2011 | 5:35 am
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This will not land you in jail... it sounds like what you want to do is make a single personal copy of each video to DVD... this is NOT illegal. A single personal back-up copy is covered in the fair use rules. Just don't make several copies or try to distribute/exhibit them, and you don't need to worry about the law. Making a back up copy of media is NOT pirating, and the courts have recognized this. You will need a DVD Recorder, and, Grex video stabilizer to transfer your VHS media to DVD.For real I have never seen a quicker or easier method .
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Old May 17, 2011 | 12:17 pm
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First, you need authorization from the creators of the tapes, and/or determination that you have the legal right to make a personal backup copy under fair use provisions.
If he is in the U.S., the Fair Use doctrine applies, and you need not get permission from the copyright holders. Fair Use exists precisely to prevent copyright holders from blocking consumers from making backups. (if you have permission from copyright holder, then obviously the Fair Use defense is not needed in the first place - copyright holders can always give up their rights at will).

Here's another recent thread on the topic.
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Old May 17, 2011 | 12:45 pm
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Old May 29, 2011 | 1:54 am
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Here is the site I have found: http://www.xdimax.com/grex/grex.html
They have a device called Grex video stabilizer. I heard that with Grex help it will be
possible to remove protection from DVD and TV channels and thus be able to download protected video to DVD.
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