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Pardon my ignorance, but can someone summarize for me if it is legal to make DVD copies of (DVD)movies for my personal use? In my line of thinking it must be similar to burning an audio music CD.I was considering buying an outboard USB drive Plextor DVD burner to burn audio and dvd copies for my personal use. A friend said don't waste my money because all the dvd's are copy protected and can't be recorded and burned. WHAT? Isn't that a primary reason why they make DVD burners? Why else would you want a dvd burner?
Assuming it is legit, is there a prefered software to best work through this? Anything similar to the great EAC? I have a modern PC with xp pro, tons of memory and hard disk space.
Thanks,
Kenreau
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Please read my more clarifications post in reply to jbmcb below re: Plextor information.Kind of hand holding, but here is a link to a nice interactive tutorial site (pretty cool and beginner friendly). Click on any of the guides under the " Re-author " section for DVDShrink or the " Ripping " section for DVDDecrypter . When the selected page opens, click on the "NEXT" arrow:
There is an article on the DMCA and Fair Use in the current issue of Stereophile.Here's the way it works. You have the right to make a back-up copy of a DVD that you buy. However, if you try to make an analog copy, Macrovision will either trigger a message in the recorder telling you that copying is prohibited or the recorder (if made after the late '80s) will make an unwatchable copy (light/dark changes, color problems and/or sync issues). And if you make a digital copy, you have to defeat the CSS copy protection. Doing so violates the DMCA law which, by the way, was illegally paid for by the Hollywood studios (bribery and money laundering), although the US Congress refers to this as... campaign contributions .
That said, make sure you have the latest firmware (currently PlexTools v2.24) from Plextor for your writer. I suggest using DVD+R discs and burning them as DVD-ROM discs (using the bit-setting/book-type feature of the +R format) for the best compatibility.
Go to afterdawn.com and look for the links to DVDDecrypter and DVDShrink available as downloads from the afterdawn.com site. Used in combination, these two are still the best DVD copying software tools you can get (and they're free). They are also illegal in the US and several other countries.
> That said, make sure you have the latest firmware (currently PlexTools v2.24) from Plextor for your writer.Plextools is a utility for Plextor drives, it is not the firmeware. The current version of PlexTools is 2.24b, get the latest firmware from here.
Make sure you get the right drive model number, burning with the wrong flash is disaterous.> I suggest using DVD+R discs and burning them as DVD-ROM discs (using the bit-setting/book-type feature of the +R format) for the best compatibility.
I'm not sure all Plextor drives support bitsetting. Plextor has said in the past it won't support bitsetting 'cause it violates the DVD+R standard, though they later had firmware upgrades that did support the feature on some drives. I'm just not sure which, or if all of them do.
> Go to afterdawn.com and look for the links to DVDDecrypter and DVDShrink
Afterdawn.com is very good, but www.doom9.net is sort of the official website of DVD "Archiving" :) The forums there have pretty much any bit of information you'd need to know.
As for DVD media, Tayio Yuden is very good, and I'm not sure who makes Verbatim media (probably not Verbatim) but Ritek is considered the "Mitsui Gold" of DVD media.
/*Music is subjective. Sound is not.*/
Plextools is a utility for Plextor drives, it is not the firmeware. The current version of PlexTools is 2.24bI forgot the "b" and yes I screwed up the software with the firmware. Son-of-a-fucking-bitch! Thanks for pointing that out (seriously).
I'm not sure all Plextor drives support bitsetting. Plextor has said in the past it won't support bitsetting 'cause it violates the DVD+R standard, though they later had firmware upgrades that did support the feature on some drives. I'm just not sure which, or if all of them do.
Plextor is wrong and it has been pointed out to them that bit-setting/book-type is in the official +R specs (I believed they cried "semantics" or "misunderstanding".). I believe he is either getting the new PX-716UF or the previous PX-712UF -- why get anything older than the 712? -- which supports this and that is why I said he needs to get the latest version of PlexTools (which is the software you need to do the bit-setting/book-type change). Plextor added DVD-ROM bit-setting/book-type in v2.09 of PlexTools).
I'm not sure who makes Verbatim media (probably not Verbatim)
Verbatim is a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation. I've seen some sites actually refer to them as Verbatim/Mitsubishi.
Afterdawn.com is very good, but www.doom9.net is sort of the official website of DVD "Archiving" :) The forums there have pretty much any bit of information you'd need to know.
I suggested AfterDawn because the owner likes to humorously fling shit at Hollywood and the site is not in a country that sides (at least not at this time) with Hollywood. I know Doom9 has great information, but I don't remember where they're located on the globe.
Also, some of the information on the Doom9 DVDShrink and DVDDecrypter sections are dated (check the dates at the bottom of the pages for DVDDecrypter, DVD blanks are only single-layer, etc). The site also focuses more on newer (though in some ways not necessarily better) methods and besides, he's just starting out and Doom9 presents an enormous amount of information that may be over-whelming for a beginner.
Wading through forums is fine once you're up 'n runnin', but more often than not I find them a bit too technical for beginners. What can I say, I like to have shit spelled out for me.
Below is a link to a nice interactive tutorial site (pretty cool and beginner friendly). Click on any of the guides under the "Re-author" section for DVDShrink or the "Ripping" section for DVDDecrypter. When the selected page opens, click on the "NEXT" arrow:
That's exactly what I was looking for.Is there a prefered media for DVD's? Like Taiyo Yuden is for audio music cd blanks?
Thanks again,
KM
The best DVD media is from TY and Verbatim. You will obviously pay a bit more, but the dyes used in these discs are the best quality and will last longer than those from other manufacturers.You might also try Ridata, as they have recently improved their products and can be found for less $.Try newegg.com for DVD media: no BS shipping costs like those from yahoo.com e-tailer members ($8.99 shipping for a 5-pack of DVDs compared to $4.99 or less from newegg). Newegg has special promotions every few weeks and it pays to check them out when you need media. And their prices on other things are worth looking at as well.
Newegg is great. I built my computer all from components I purchased from them last year. I will check out the dvd media.Thanks again,
Kenreau
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