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holy crap, go RealNetworks!
I think personal copies are 100% fine, anyone who thinks otherwise just wants your money.

Doesn't everyone? ;) :P
Seriously: Two thumbs up for RealNetworks! Even if their reasons are probably selfish, victory against MPAA in the case would benefit customers.

This is probably the first time anyone has said that, since RealPlayer used to put all sorts of unwanted spyware junk back in the day.

It's gotten better? I haven't installed realplayer on a windows pc for many years (real alternative for the win, though I very rarely use realmedia files at all).

Good on Realnetworks I say. The amount of times I've lent a friend a copy of a film and its come back ruined, you would have thought I'd have learnt my lesson by now. That feature would be really handy, even though doing that isn't strictly legal. Least I could make sure some of my more special DVDs (the ones given as presents etc) will stay nice.

I think personal copies are 100% fine, anyone who thinks otherwise just wants your money.
Personal copies will be the end of the world. Now give me your money, please =)

This will be an interesting case to keep an eye on. The major issue is not that of backups, but whether the right to make backups supersedes restrictions put forth by the DMCA with regards to circumventing copy protection (these restrictions were basically an end run around fair use rights). In realistic terms a decision against Real Networks will mean very little (considering the numerous, far more permissive DVD ripping tools already available, such as Handbrake and DVDShrink), although a decision in favor of Real Networks would be a nice little blow against one of the more objectionable parts of the DMCA.

Perhaps they will get the same results as Amstrad did when they first had legal problems due to their double cassette tape stereo units (Amstrad won the case, by the way).

This time I'll be nice:
Lawmakers and enforcers can go fuck themselves, I'll continue to make backup copies of all my digital stuff as I have done 15 years up to now. I fear no copy protection, for the matter.
Don't try, you moronic (USA, Italian, WIPO, whatever) lawmakers, don't even think about entering into my house willing to regulate my own fucking businesses..... I've bought them, I'll backup them. End of the story.

I can remember a time when on the amiga & pc (floppy disc era) games companies used to tell you to backup your originals and put them in a safe place.
Now they are saying it's illegal. As far as i am concerned i will continue to keep backing up my games, music and video.
If they are for your own personal use to preserve your orginals then they can sod off, create a more sturdy format for the material which doesn't break so easily and i won't need to do it.

I want your money

Same here but I'm not greedy. I want enough of his money to buy a PS3, a new TV and a good car, whatever is left he can keep.