Can you rip dvds to your hard drive?

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Is this possible? Can you rip a dvd onto your hard drive?

If this is against the AUP and TOS please close/delete this thread. :)
 
By "rip", do you mean transfer the contents of a DVD onto a HD? If so, then of course – after all, it's just a disk, like a CD or a floppy. In fact, some companies now have software installers on DVDs.
 
I'm trying to say is like is there a program which I can rip a dvd to my hard drive and then be able to rip that to a vcd.

Basically a dvd to vcd ripper.
 
There was a program called DVD X Copy that allowed you to make CD/hard drive backups of your DVDs but the company that made it shut down due to lawsuits. There are freeware programs that will do the exact same thing though. 👍
 
Oh, in that case, I wouldn't know. Sorry!

Why can't you use the original DVD? Doesn't a VCD serve the same purpose?
 
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There was a program called DVD X Copy that allowed you to make CD/hard drive backups of your DVDs but the company that made it shut down due to lawsuits. There are freeware programs that will do the exact same thing though. 👍

That's pretty much exactly what I need. Only, I can't find one!
 
DVD Decrypter will rip the DVD to an uncompressed VOB file. Then you'd need something like VirtualDub to convert it to another format and compress it.

There are probably programs that will rip the movie straight from the DVD into a desired format, but that's the way my PC mag done it. 👍
 
sUn
Is this possible? Can you rip a dvd onto your hard drive?

If this is against the AUP and TOS please close/delete this thread. :)

I'm going to allow this thread to remain visible, but it is definitely on the cusp of discussing illegal activity.

I don't have the information to hand, but I'm pretty sure that at least one court has ruled that decrypting DVD movies is illegal. It's not absolutely decided yet, but expect to see a court rule against it in future.
 
GilesGuthrie
I'm going to allow this thread to remain visible, but it is definitely on the cusp of discussing illegal activity.

I don't have the information to hand, but I'm pretty sure that at least one court has ruled that decrypting DVD movies is illegal. It's not absolutely decided yet, but expect to see a court rule against it in future.
But doesn't the law also say that you are entitled to 1 personal backup or something like that? So long as he legally owns the DVDs (which we can't prove he doesn't), he should be right.
 
Shannon
But doesn't the law also say that you are entitled to 1 personal backup or something like that? So long as he legally owns the DVDs (which we can't prove he doesn't), he should be right.

Like I say, I don't have the information to hand at the moment (it's in a file on a server at work), but I think that the jist of the ruling is that the act of decrypting the DVD (not what you subsequently do with the decrypted data) is what is illegal. And since the question was to do with ripping the DVD to subsequently record it to the (unencrypted) VCD format, that's where the potential infringement lies, not in the issue of making backup copies.

Not that the law on making backup copies is especially clear, either.

It's also worth thinking about this from an international perspective. I'm from the UK. Specifically Scotland. Scotland has slightly different laws than the rest of the UK (a fact which saved me from a driving ban once :D). And the UK doesn't always fit with the rest of the European Union. Shannon, you're in Oz, aren't you? sUn, somewhere in the US (which is noted for setting some laws on a state-by-state basis)?

I think that humans as a whole have singularly failed to grasp the nettle of setting international laws that can be applied equally, and the internet has really made this sort of thing imperative.
 
GilesGuthrie
Like I say, I don't have the information to hand at the moment (it's in a file on a server at work), but I think that the jist of the ruling is that the act of decrypting the DVD (not what you subsequently do with the decrypted data) is what is illegal. And since the question was to do with ripping the DVD to subsequently record it to the (unencrypted) VCD format, that's where the potential infringement lies, not in the issue of making backup copies.
Ahh, I see where you're coming from. I think if the DVD encryption developers make an easily crackable encryption method, then they should actually work on a more secure one than taking the cheap way out and making it illegal.
 
Shannon
But doesn't the law also say that you are entitled to 1 personal backup or something like that? So long as he legally owns the DVDs (which we can't prove he doesn't), he should be right.
The digital millenium copyright act prohibits backing up your own software/media. However, no court is going to charge a personal user for backing up their own media because of how high the risk of damaging the originals is. They call this Fair Use or something like that

In addition to that, decrypting a DVD is also against the DMCA due to the fact that you have to bypass the copy protection built into the disk
 

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