On 03/17/2012 03:16 AM, Chris Knadle wrote: > On Friday, March 16, 2012 13:13:30, Patrick Ouellette wrote: > >> Resampling could be termed a derivative work, not a backup copy since you >> are throwing away information contained in the original. >> > That may be, but some source media is > 8 GB such that a direct copy cannot > be > made onto even a dual-layer DVD, so resampling is the only option if a > "backup" (as far as the layman is concerned) is to be made. That this > procedure becomes a derivative work simply illustrates one of the areas where > d.o and d-m.o philosophically diverge even though both share common ground in > trying to support a universal operating system. > I thought that there was some writable DVD 9 available on the market. Did I dream?
Also, why not writing the DVD image on your HDD? Thomas P.S: You can buy DVDs on the street for 0.5 EUR here, which is a major contribution to the film industry... :) I'd be a useless loss of time to do backups of these. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f63a2eb.8080...@debian.org
