can you rip a mac game to a macbook (pro)

vinnym · vinnym #1 (**permalink**)

03-14-2010, 05:42 PM

hi,
I want to rip call of duty 4 to my my macbook pro. (meaning i want to save the cd to the hard drive.) this way i dont need to worry about the disc. im new to macs and learning about the every day.
any answers?

blackmac11 · blackmac11 #2 (**permalink**)

03-14-2010, 05:52 PM

give toast a try, I've never used it but from what I've heard it is the best at what it does.

Slydude · Slydude #3 (**permalink**)

03-14-2010, 09:30 PM

Toast is a good program and it's good for this and other things but there's a free option already on your hard drive. Follow the Leopard directions on this page. There may have been some minor changes for Snow Leopard but i think you'll get the idea. The directions are also in Disk Utility's help files. How To Make Copies of DVDs

Yffum · Yffum #4 (**permalink**)

03-15-2010, 02:35 AM

Hi, I asked a question related to this on another thread, but nobody saw it I guess.

I was wondering if it's actually legal to copy a game like Call of Duty 4 even if you own it. Just for your own purposes though, not for copying it and giving it to others.

DarkestRitual · DarkestRitual #5 (**permalink**)

03-15-2010, 05:28 PM

Yes. With Disk Utility.

Jamie-Jamie · Jamie-Jamie #6 (**permalink**)

03-15-2010, 06:05 PM

You're making an image of the disc and not sharing it. As long as you don't have to fight some ill-conceived DRM to read the disc, it's not against the DMCA.

harryb2448 · harryb2448 #7 (**permalink**)

03-15-2010, 10:29 PM

Unless of course the disc manufacturer has installed blockers to prevent copying the disc. This is the normal practice to prevent folk making copies and distributing them, and I am NOT suggesting you are doing that at all, vinnie.

Yffum · Yffum #8 (**permalink**)

03-16-2010, 01:53 AM

what's an ill-concieved DRM exactly? It sounds familiar... Does the game Spore have one? I know you can already play Spore without the disc, but unfortunately the Galactic Adventures add-on requires a disc and I was considering making a disk image of that. I just want to stay legal. I want to respect what the creators of the game want.

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Member Since: Mar 14, 2010 Posts: 2	03-14-2010, 05:42 PM hi, I want to rip call of duty 4 to my my macbook pro. (meaning i want to save the cd to the hard drive.) this way i dont need to worry about the disc. im new to macs and learning about the every day. any answers? Last edited by vinnym; 03-14-2010 at 05:48 PM.
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Yffum #4 (permalink)
Member Since: Feb 22, 2010 Posts: 77 Mac Specs: MacBook Pro Running Snow Leopard out of the box	03-15-2010, 02:35 AM Hi, I asked a question related to this on another thread, but nobody saw it I guess. I was wondering if it's actually legal to copy a game like Call of Duty 4 even if you own it. Just for your own purposes though, not for copying it and giving it to others.
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DarkestRitual #5 (permalink)
Member Since: Apr 09, 2009 Location: Ithaca NY Posts: 2,073 Mac Specs: 13 inch alMacBook 2GHz C2D 4G DDR3, 1.25GHz G4 eMac	03-15-2010, 05:28 PM Yes. With Disk Utility.
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Jamie-Jamie #6 (permalink)
Member Since: Feb 25, 2010 Posts: 481 Mac Specs: Mac Pro, Power Mac G4, iMac G3, iPhone 3GS	03-15-2010, 06:05 PM You're making an image of the disc and not sharing it. As long as you don't have to fight some ill-conceived DRM to read the disc, it's not against the DMCA.
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harryb2448 #7 (permalink)
Member Since: Nov 28, 2007 Location: Nambucca Heads Australia Posts: 14,086 Mac Specs: iMac i5 2.7GHz OS X.8.3	03-15-2010, 10:29 PM Unless of course the disc manufacturer has installed blockers to prevent copying the disc. This is the normal practice to prevent folk making copies and distributing them, and I am NOT suggesting you are doing that at all, vinnie.
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Yffum #8 (permalink)
Member Since: Feb 22, 2010 Posts: 77 Mac Specs: MacBook Pro Running Snow Leopard out of the box	03-16-2010, 01:53 AM what's an ill-concieved DRM exactly? It sounds familiar... Does the game Spore have one? I know you can already play Spore without the disc, but unfortunately the Galactic Adventures add-on requires a disc and I was considering making a disk image of that. I just want to stay legal. I want to respect what the creators of the game want.
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