| Chrkeller said: So if I own Disney movies on DVD I don't have to pay for Disney+ I can just "legally" make digital versions... sure. |
Exactly, you can!
Disney Plus is a subscription to... Disney Plus. You can extract the files from your DVD and play it on your PC, smartphone or whatever device you want
Disneyplus existence does not mean it's illegal to own a digital file from Disney movies either
What is illegal is to download a movie that you haven't paid for in first place
A law can only be enforced if said law exists, there is not law prohibiting emulation, because a emulation is a piece of software, it's not illegal having a personal device to run media. In my country is actually explicitly
This have no correlation with you trespassing speed limit in traffic, because there is a law clearly saying you are forbid to do so
Indeed, Europe is even starting to revise regulations to forbid mobile manufacturers to lock downloadble software from a single store which, of course, means that lawmakers already understand it's illegal to abide software to a specific piece of hardware
