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copying stuff off my upc box to my laptop

  • 15-01-2010 6:36pm
    #1
    darsal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭


    hi
    just wondering can i copy programs off my upc box to my laptop??????


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  • #2
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,246 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    No. Not legally, anyway.


  • #3
    Kristopherus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,907 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    icdg wrote: »
    No. Not legally, anyway.

    Are you sure about that? I thought it was ok to copy any material from your tv for private use. Is there anything wrong with saving a tv prog to a multi-media external hard drive and then saving it to your laptop or desktop?


  • #4
    darsal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭darsal


    yea thats what i was thinking? but i dont think any one knows how to transfare it over


  • #5
    Kristopherus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,907 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    Get a multi -media external hard drive with a scart socket and also usb port on it. They are freely available. You can record any of the channels on your tv onto that drive.Then you can access the files on the drive from your laptop via a usb cable.Or ideed you can save the file to a dvd or video cassette.


  • #6
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,246 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    Under s.101 Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 making a recording for the purposes of "time shifting" (watching later) is legal. But this isn't what the OP is asking as far as I understand.

    From what I understand, the OP has already made the recording for the purposes of time-shifting on his/her UPC DVR. The OP now proposes to make a second copy of the recording on his/her laptop. This involves breaking any encrpyption which may be employed by UPC of the recordings on the DVR, which if not specifically illegal, is certainly against their terms of service.


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  • #7
    Kristopherus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,907 ✭✭✭✭Kristopherus


    Well what I'm most familiar with is the Sky+ box.You can play what you have recorded onto any media you wish to. I'm sure it is the same with the upc box. None of that is illegal as long as it is for private use.


  • #8
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,246 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    Kristopherus wrote: »
    Well what I'm most familiar with is the Sky+ box.You can play what you have recorded onto any media you wish to. I'm sure it is the same with the upc box. None of that is illegal as long as it is for private use.

    It isn't the use that is under question here, it is the methodology of just how one gets a recording from the UPC box to a laptop without breaking any encryption or violating their Terms of Service. There are of course ways it can be done but I'm loathe to encourage it.

    I'm minded to close this thread but lets see how it goes first.


  • #9
    sdevine89
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 567 ✭✭✭sdevine89


    Just get yourself a dazzle box


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