Topic: DVD to HD backup

[rbmgf7]

I want to keep this as legal as possible. from what i understand is that as long as you don't sell or share, you're fine. I just want to know if anyone out there knew of some programs (that i can purchase) that would allow me to take my dvd's and transfer it to a file on my hd? i'll be heading to the sandbox in a couple months and i'd rather take a laptop or external hd instead of my dvd binder and potentially end up ruining my movies.

so far i came across two places: winx and magic dvd. both about $30 and claim to copy regardless of copyrighting encryption

[bucky katt]

i think Roxio Creator will do what youre looking to do also.

[Duke McDukiedook]

DMCA says different- Under that law it is illegal to make digital copies of any copyrighted material- no matter the purpose.

You have our wonderful, sold-out congress to thank for that.

[bucky katt]

you'll need something like Clone DVD to get around that. i'll see if i can find a recent version for you

[Duke McDukiedook]

To get around the illegality of making copies of copyrighted material?

He said he wanted to do it as legal as possible which means you can't make copies- PERIOD.

You are breaking the law if you make a copy- no matter the purpose.

[bucky katt]

k, just trying to help. i wont let it happen again 

[Duke McDukiedook]

I know Buck, but we don't want to help people unknowingly commit felonies, right? 

[bucky katt]

uhhhmmmmm yes?

[ev0lve]

To get around the illegality of making copies of copyrighted material?
He said he wanted to do it as legal as possible which means you can't make copies- PERIOD.
You are breaking the law if you make a copy- no matter the purpose.

Not necessarily true. As I understand it the DMCA provides penalties for circumventing DRM not for copying itself.

So, you're free to make a copy for backup/personal use but if you have to bust rights management to do it then it's illegal... and since everything has DRM you just lost the right to back your #$%* up. Sneaky and smart.

Better if you buy it from iTunes or somewhere that delivers a file instead of hard copy if you really want to be able to back it up legally.

[Duke McDukiedook]

Yeah, good luck finding commercial material out there without copyright protection on it. 

You might be able to find some stuff on Itunes, I dunno much about that.

[ev0lve]

Yeah, good luck finding commercial material out there without copyright protection on it.  

You might be able to find some stuff on Itunes, I dunno much about that.

Not copyright, everything has copyright - Digital Rights Management, encryption.

Maybe what he should do is just rip a byte for byte copy to his HD and burn a DVD when his original craps out. That should be legal enough. Keep those receipts for when the man comes knocking on your door  

Reading the original post:

Burn the DVDs down as disk images you can mount on your laptop. Should work fine although each will be whatever the size of the original disc is - 3GB+.

Here's a nice run through for windows 7 if you need it.

http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsexperience/archive/2009/04/13/burn-iso-images-natively-in-windows-7.aspx

It seems there's no native way to burn directly to a HD? Thanks Microsoft! And you can't mount an ISO image natively in Windows? Someone tell me that's not the case... Now I'll have to go try it but I'm still running XP - maybe that's cleaned up in 7?

So, back to the important stuff - Nero, Roxio or any iso/img recorder that will let you burn to your HD should work but you might need another program to mount the image.

Take it easy out there, stay safe and thanks!

[rynanza]

Lifehacker had a piece on this recently:  http://lifehacker.com/5444274/five-best-dvd+ripping-tools