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Originally Posted by sharphead
Yes, and the purpose of backing up something, is for the person who backed it up to retrieve it later (personal use), not back it up for the purpose of letting someone else store a copy at another location.
Backing up and distribution are not mutually exclusive.
Your playing games and you know it. Distribution is not covered under the backup for personal use clauses for any software in any country, laws are being changed to support that statement right now.
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neither canadian or US law talk about personal use. The fair use provision which defines rights outside the scope of the exclusive rights granted by the act (your backup example) talks about non commercial use.
for the scope of fair use you have no copyright protections whatsoever, so distribution is legal. That why it is perfectly legal for a friend to lend me his vcr copy of smallvile when the power goes out in my house.(as long as he does charge money == non commercial)