By Martin Shawl
The debate is an on going one and so we will do our best to explain the situation in regards to legally copying your owned or purchased CDs and DVD movies.
The DVD manufacturers and movie studios call the copying of DVDs illegal because it infringes upon copyright law.
The public cites the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 as their Right for copying DVDs. This Act states that it is perfectly legal to copy a media source the you have purchased for the purpose of a backup or replacement copy. Currently, the studios and manufacturers are making their DVDs and CDs as hard as possible to record so that they may not be copied. However the DVD burning software industry has found ways to circumvent these extra measures taken by studios. So the answer is: DVD copying is legal if you are owner of the DVD and you make a copy for your own personal use.
Audio Home Recording Act of 1992
The Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 states that copyright holders can't sue the average user for making home copies of their music. But the studios' lawyers say that the recording companies are not required to make available the technology to do so – that means the recording industry will try to make their disks as challenging as possible to copy.