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copying an optical disc

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aethelbert

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I just got Leopard for my iMac and I'd like to copy the disc. In all of my years of owning a mac (almost 20...), I've never tried to do this. Now I'm confused. What's the easiest way to go about making a copy of a DVD (or any optical media, I guess)? I've looked through disc utility and nothing seems to be what I'm looking for. Knowing how to convert it to a .dmg or .iso would help, as I'm pretty sure that I know how to burn via disc utility. But what are my options for getting a copy of the disc onto my hard drive to burn?

I would experiment by myself, but DL-DVDs are too expensive to waste.

Thanks
 
Buy toast titanium for $80 dollars. But I highly doubt you will be able to copy DVD's by apple because of the software encryption on there DVD's.

--Eric
 
akonradi said:
But what are my options for getting a copy of the disc onto my hard drive to burn?
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In Disk Utility, click on the Leopard disc. Then click on New Image. I think you can leave the default options. Once the image is created, you can burn that image onto a blank disc.

ewilson6 said:
Buy toast titanium for $80 dollars. But I highly doubt you will be able to copy DVD's by apple because of the software encryption on there DVD's
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No need for Toast, just use Disk Utility and Apple's DVD are not software encrypted.

TwinCities Dan said:
I was going to say, I didn't think that was legal...
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It's not illegal to make a backup copy of your legally owned software.
 
ewilson6 said:
Buy toast titanium for $80 dollars. But I highly doubt you will be able to copy DVD's by apple because of the software encryption on there DVD's.

--Eric
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I have used Toast 8 in the past to make an archive backup of the Leopard upgrade DVD onto a Dual Layer disc.
 
TwinCities Dan said:
You would think if it is encrypted to not be copied that it would be illegal to do so... But, like you said, this is not the case... :eek:
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I think that for the most part, the people who Apple really needs to concern themselves with in terms of illegal copying are the OSx86 crowd, and they aren't going to be making direct copies of the install discs anyway.

Even so, they don't seem to be too concerned.
 
dejo said:
In Disk Utility, click on the Leopard disc. Then click on New Image. I think you can leave the default options. Once the image is created, you can burn that image onto a blank disc.
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Thanks, that worked. I'd think that after so many years of using disk utility for partitioning and burning that I would've figured that one out.

I was going to say, I didn't think that was legal...
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I actually read the terms in the little booklet to make sure that it is legal.

You may make one copy of the Apple Software (excluding the Boot ROM code and other Apple firmware that is embedded or otherwise contained in Apple-labeled hardware) in machine readable form for backup purposes only; provided that the backup copy must include all copyright or other proprietary notices contained on the original.
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akonradi said:
Thanks, that worked. I'd think that after so many years of using disk utility for partitioning and burning that I would've figured that one out.
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Don't feel bad about it. It's one of the most stupid ways of copying a disc I've ever heard of - but it's all that Apple's given us right now...
 
dejo said:
Once I understood the concept and versatility of a disk image, it didn't seem stupid at all.
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In the PC world, there are utilities called 'Disc Copy'. So I suppose it just comes down to what's obvious and what's not obvious. :D
 
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