If you rent a dvd and then burn it onto a blank cd is it stealing even though you paid and rented it?

Question

I have considered renting BloodRayne on dvd and burning it onto a blank dvd....I don't want to pay $20 just for a dvd so I want to know if I pay $5 for the rental and burn it onto a dvd is it still considered stealing even though I have paid to rent it..can I get busted for it?

Answer 1

stealing or not by avoiding copy protection your breaking the piracy laws don't get caught :p

Answer 2

Yes copying a movie to a blank CD or DVD is stealing. You paid like $3.99 to rent the movie apposed to $24.99 to buy it. You just stole $21.00 from the film company.

Where are you renting that it costs you $5.00 you might want to look into another video rental place.

You can be busted, and the penalties are the following.

$250,000.00 per movie they find. and upwards of 5 years in a federal prison with a Felony infringement conviction.

Don't think if you are under 18 you are safe either, a couple years ago a 9 yr old girl was convicted of a felony for downloading music online.

Answer 3

Rent means you are paying for the time to view the movie, not the movie itself.

So yes, making a copy to keep instead of buying one, is taking something you did not pay for.

The word for that is stealing.

And yes, though it is not all that likely, you can can get busted. In fact, theft of intellectual property is becoming such a problem (because folks only see the DvD and don't realize they are taking someone's hard work without paying a fair price for it) that the owners of the artistic content are prosecuting individuals and sending them to jail.

One very good reason why your DvD choice is so expensive in the first place is that the ones that are sold have to make up for the ones that have been stolen by illegal copying, and therefore a smaller number of them have to fetch a high enough price to pay for the work done in making the movie.

If you know anyone who makes copies of DvDs, CDs, books, and the like, whether to save themselves the cost of buying one, or to be "nice" to friends, you should be angry with them for contributing to making the price so high you don't want to pay it.

Answer 4

Yes, it is completely illegal and you are specifically breaking well-established copyright law...and stealing.

What you are paying for is usage rights, time-delimited and constrained by the rental period. What you should do if you really want the game that badly is PURCHASE A RETAIL COPY AT FULL PRICE.

As I work for an international software developer, I am very sensitive to piracy issues, and I can state unequivocally that THIS IS THEFT.

Answer 5

Yes! Plus the fact that some dvd's cannot be copied in any manner, as it will damage them. Then YOU have to buy one to replace it. Just spend the money to begin with, Or wait until your rental business decides to sell off excess copies and buy it used.

Answer 6

NO cuz u paid for the blank cd and paid for the renting movie......its only llegal if u sell it...even though i think that its a good idea of selling a burned copy :)

Answer 7

I dont think it is considered stealing if you burn it but alot of dvds like that dont give the option to burn.

Answer 8

Yes. The fee was only for the period that you rented it. It in no way conferred permanent viewing status to you. That is what buying the DVD does.

Answer 9

Yes, it's still stealing. Buy the CD for $20 so those that EXPECT to get paid for their work DO get paid. You don't work for free and neither should I...

Answer 10

Yes read the COPYRIGHT WARNING at the beginning of each DVD. "EVEN IF YOU COPY IT WITHOUT ANY MONETARY GAIN"

I think it's ok to back up DVD's you own, no selling though.