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Computer Help and Support

Phillip McCleod

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14. yepper! i love my *nixbox.

Reply to Occulus (Reply #13)

Mon Mar 25, 2013, 12:42 PM

Mar 2013

and yep to the VCRs too. i read a great book on this subject a couple years ago but damned if i can remember the title. if i think of it i'll come back.

AM radio tried to do the same thing to FM, and musical score publishers tried to do it to recording artists. each time, we the people have lost, while corporations have gained, until now..

mickey mouse is immortal.

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Is it possible to record a streaming Netflix movie. [View all] pennylane100 Mar 2013 OP

If you are in the USA, even if there is a way, this is illegal. nonoyes Mar 2013 #1

Thanks, pennylane100 Mar 2013 #2

Set up a video camera and point it at your computer monitor. krispos42 Mar 2013 #3

Fraps will do it, at a single keystroke. Occulus Mar 2013 #4

I use anyDVD along with cloneDVD to rip DVD's Go Vols Mar 2013 #5

Jing will record 5 minute videos... Thor_MN Oct 2014 #17

DVDs are dirt cheap anymore Proud Liberal Dem Mar 2013 #6

thanks for all the helpful suggestions pennylane100 Mar 2013 #7

yeah there's a word for that. 'piracy' Phillip McCleod Mar 2013 #8

I had not thought of the legal angle. pennylane100 Mar 2013 #9

heh. for some people, not me, obviously.. Phillip McCleod Mar 2013 #10

How is this different than recording something on HBO to a DVR? Occulus Mar 2013 #11

true but the temp copy stored during streaming Phillip McCleod Mar 2013 #12

Proving once again that *nix does anything you want it to do Occulus Mar 2013 #13

yepper! i love my *nixbox. Phillip McCleod Mar 2013 #14

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