Copying a DVD

[Grandpappy]

I have been bought the film "Gladiator"as a present and want to 'pack it away' so as not to scratch it,etc., trouble is I want to watch it again and again and I don't how to make a copy of it! I used to copy my LP's onto cassette and make copies of my cassettes and my CD's, but I don't seem to be able to copy my DVD's.
I am using Microsoft Windows Home Edition on a Dell Dimension 5150 , with 150Gb. hard drive and 2.5Gb. of memory, I also have an external hard drive of 300Gb. ( both of which are 70 per cent empty!) but I am reading and seeing current reports by the various authorities that 'Pirating' is costing the industry money.
I've spent my money( well, someone else has) so the authorities have got their money, what more do they want?
Anyway, can anyone help me out and tell me how to get a copy of my film "Gladiator", apart from going out and buying another copy?
I swear on my PUPPIES LIFE to keep 'schtum' about any information divulged!!
Cheers
Grandpappy

[Ethel]

Buy another copy - you want to watch it time and again, and give it away/

You can't have your cake and eat it. Surely if it's that good it's worth buying?

Or wait till it is shown on the tv and record it from that. It will be shown hundreds of times in your lifetime.


I don't know if you are aware but website owners can be held liable for content on their websites. What you want to do is illegal, and you are encouraging us to aid and abet you.

[originalspa]

Best thing to do is download 'DVD Decrypter' and follow the step by step process and burn it onto a blank DVD!!

Just google it and download. You can also use 'DVD Shrink' if you plan to copy the menu's as well but if it's just the film you want, you can also use this option!

[Ethel]

Or buy it again for under �4 with free delivery

http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/81662/Gladiator -2-Discs/Product.html

[fo3nix]

Never buy it again.

You've bought it (though what you've actually purchased is debatable -- you certainly don't own any rights to the film, so really you're just renting it forever). So you should be able to do what you want with it.

All this 'it's costing the industry money' business is a load of rubbish. There still seems to be quite a few big budget films being made, quite a few rich actors, and a lot of rich company execs. Hardly 3rd world.

You need a DVD decrypter. DVD shrink apparently works well on Windows. To convert to a video format (mp4), try Handbrake.

The issue is that CDs, LPs, etc. aren't protected, but DVDs are (with several technologies). Googling for DVD decrypters will help though.

[Ethel]

fo3nix - his rights to watch the dvd disappear when he gives it away as a gift - he has transferred that right to the recipient.

[MrBounty]

Aren't i right in saying that if you own the original, you can make a copy for yourself?

Obviously, you cant make multiple copies and flog them on, but im sure you are allowed to make a single copy to use, if you wanted to keep the original unused...

[tigersam258]

there seems to be some confusion on this point at the moment MrBounty as circumventing DRM software may be illegal and so using software that does this makes it an illegal act to copy if only for yourself.

[fo3nix]

Ethel: yes, but he just wants a copy for himself.

Breaking DRM schemes is illegal under America's DMCA. But it's a bit more grey-area in the UK.

Anyway, if the act of copying the information is going to be illegal, then the very act of playing the film is also illegal -- to play it, you must buffer the music (i.e., copy it) to a temporary place in your DVD player or PC.

The whole thing's a mess because copyright was never meant to do any of this.

[Hammer]

Ethel - "I have been bought the film....."

He wants to watch his own backup copy and keep the original packed away safely.

Technically, copying it is illegal in the UK (although not in the US as I understand it - they have a fair use law or something), but then so is copying your own music to your own ipod. Hardly the crime of the century in this case.