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Backing up OWNED commercial DVDs

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bleedmytears

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Oct 8, 2010
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Hi all,
I have a few DVD's that ive recently bought and I like to back mine up as they get scratched and the like all too often in my house. I have Parellels running XP on my computer (I tried using mactheripper, but it hasnt worked for many to date) and I have dvdshrink and dvd decryptor on parallels.... however I cant seem to use them as they cant see the dvd i put in as it is a "virtual drive" ive tried going into my computer and selecting the dvd from the mac drive but that doesnt seem to work either.

how to i get to be able to 'see' and use dvd's, cd's and the like in parallels? I dont want to keep buying new copies of my dvds everytime they get scratched from overuse and the like!

cheers
Leigh
 
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If you just want the movie itself Handbtake works great and has easy to use features to make it suitable for iPhone or iPod.
 
As the above poster said, Handbrake will rip commercial DVD`s just fine but you must have VLC installed and running for this to work.
I also am obliged to point out that it is illegal to do this even for personal use. ;)
 
I thought there was a recent revision in the US. That allow this for personal or artistic use.
 
case2001 said:
I thought there was a recent revision in the US. That allow this for personal or artistic use.
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Current US law allows copies for personal use/backup.

Under United States' Federal law, making a backup copy of a DVD-Video or an audio CD by a consumer is legal under fair use protection. However, this provision of United States law conflicts with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act prohibition of so-called "circumvention measures" of copy protections.
In the noted "321" case, Federal District Judge Susan Illston of the Northern District of California,[5] ruled that the backup copies made with software such as DVD Decrypter are in fact legal but that distribution of the software used to make them is illegal. As of the date of this revision, neither the US Supreme Court nor the US Congress has taken definitive action on the matter.
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DustyLBottoms said:
Current US law allows copies for personal use/backup.
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Yes and no... as long as one doesn't circumvent the DVDs copy protection (as quoted) which the vast majority of movie DVDs are. In any case, I've never heard of anyone getting lynched for making their own backups. It's those involved in distributing protected content that they're really after.
 
bigjobby said:
Yes and no... as long as one doesn't circumvent the DVDs copy protection (as quoted) which the vast majority of movie DVDs are. In any case, I've never heard of anyone getting lynched for making their own backups. It's those involved in distributing protected content that they're really after.
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As long as you only make a copy for yourself and don't go posting it on torrents or passing out copies, the studios aren't going to know and aren't going to bother prosecuting.
 
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