how can there be retail software that copies movies?

[cgm707]

I would like to copy portions of DVD movies that I own, to create a custom DVD. Before I spend money on a product that says it can do this, I am just wondering how they do this is the movies are supposed to be copyrighted or copy proof?

 

[GGJstudios]

I would like to copy portions of DVD movies that I own, to create a custom DVD. Before I spend money on a product that says it can do this, I am just wondering how they do this is the movies are supposed to be copyrighted or copy proof?

They may be copyrighted, but they're not copy-proof. You don't have to spend money, either. You can rip DVDs with Handbrake.

 

[cgm707]

They may be copyrighted, but they're not copy-proof. You don't have to spend money, either. You can rip DVDs with Handbrake.

Thanks very much for the reply. So, any software for DVD copying should work, I guess. I will take a look at Handbrake. Thanks for the referral, GGJstudios.

 

[Prodo123]

Hell, you can even use Disk Utility to rip a DVD.

 

[MOKHAN]

heck! you could buy them already ripped at asian supermarkets!!

 

[Risasi]

With the advent of DMCA, it's technically illegal to rip your own movies, because you're circumventing encryption. But it's not theoretically illegal to make a backup copy of your own media. So it's this weird catch-22.
I think a viable business is to mail your DVD's to some place like Holland, have them decrypt and rip your DVD's for you making a backup copy, then mail back to you your DVD and a decrypted file copy of the DVD. At least that's what I do with mine...that's the ticket. I have someone in Holland making backup copies of my DVD's for me.


The whole thing is FUBAR, reminds me of this scene about hash:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIk-xp3F3kI&feature=related