# "Don't Make Illegal Copies of this Disk"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-make-illegal-copies-of-this-disk/34068>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 21, 2000, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-make-illegal-copies-of-this-disk/34068 "2000-09-21T23:38:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-make-illegal-copies-of-this-disk/34068/1 "2000-09-21T23:38:15Z")

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So says the warning on the new Microsoft cdroms I bought. That would imply that there are legal copies of the disks you can make, right? What would those be?

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-make-illegal-copies-of-this-disk/34068/2 "2000-09-21T23:48:17Z")

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Every license agreement I’ve ever read states that it is acceptable to make a backup copy of the disk the software is stored on.

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**Author:** ![Pergau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7c8e57/32.png) [@Pergau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pergau)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-make-illegal-copies-of-this-disk/34068/3 "2000-09-22T00:04:27Z")

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be careful, it’s on ly in america that you can make copies of legally owned software, in europe, the laws are different.