Backing up your own games that you bought with your hard-earned money should be perfectly fine, right?

However, making it legal to copy or backup games also poses the problem of abuse by pirating games.

You don't need to look anywhere but the Internet to see abuse of this privilege.

This poses a problem for those honest folk who simply want a backup of the ever-so-fragile CDs and DVDs. Paying $50 for a game once is enough.

With games getting more and more expensive everyday, it is not cheap to buy a game more than once.

The Fair Use Act and the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 come to our rescue to answer this question.

The act basically describes that it is perfectly legal to copy or backup a game if you own it.

The game must belong to you though and you cannot copy it for piracy purposes.

Although it is called the Audio Home Recording Act, it is applicable to a wide variety of scenarios including copying video/movies, music, software, and games.

However, the same Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 states that the companies making these products do not have to simplify the backup process.

In other words, they can make it a living nightmare for you to back up that precious wii game.

If you can somehow manage to break though this copy protection barrier, you can get into no legal hot water.