ripping copyrighted DVD?
I want to rip something from a copyrighted DVD for my personal use but I'm not sure if it's okay, you know, copyright laws and stuff. Anyway, I also don't know how so I plan to check out some online help and stumbled into something which says that I might need some bigger hard disk space. Should I?
PopeCuervoLime posted this at 16:33 — 25th October 2006.
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I think that falls under Fair Use laws but I'm no lawyer (yet), so I can't really help you. Fair Use basically means that as long as you own the DVD then you are entitled to make a back up copy for personal use. It's the same thing with Music CD's.
Fair Use falls under the pretense that you might misplace your DVD or you don't want to scratch up the original so you go ahead and make copies of it to avoid that.
There's tons of programs that can help you rip DVD's. http://www.afterdawn.com, for example.
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JeevesBond posted this at 18:40 — 25th October 2006.
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Is the DVD protected by Regional Encoding or CSS? If you break either of these then you're probably breaking the law.
This would have come under fair use, but thanks to MPAA lobbying these rights have been removed. Not just in the US, but Europe too.
Basically it's legal to make copies for personal use, but not use any tools that circumvent Region Encoding/CSS. Effectively making it impossible to make copies for personal use.
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Arch posted this at 02:28 — 25th November 2006.
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I recommend DVD Shrink.
internetking posted this at 18:38 — 29th November 2006.
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i recomend clone dvd along with any dvd to rip out the copyright
MoeAlza posted this at 03:23 — 17th December 2006.
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yeah iv heard clone dvd is very usefull.. though i have not used it yet.
herenow posted this at 11:04 — 18th December 2006.
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In the US, messing with the copyright protection is definitely illegal.
Abroad, it´s another matter (someone filed a lawsuit in France against a film company, because she couldn´t copy a copright-protected DVD for her mother and surprisingly won).
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