body: So, I have bought a lot of things that came in physical format: movies, songs, video games, and all sorts of other digital media.
  
  
  However, things like CDs and DVDs are rather annoying -- they take up space and they're always getting lost and dirty and whatever.
  
  
  Would it be legal to copy all of the media I bought to my own hard drive (or an external one), as long as I don't make the media publically available (upload it to a torrent site or whatever)? Would I have to destroy the original media? Can I make backups of this non-original hard drive?
  
  
  
title: Can I duplicate media for personal use only?