• The Mac-Forums Community Guidelines (linked at the top of every forum) are very clear, we respect US law and court precedence when it comes to legality of activity.

    Therefore to clarify:
    • You may not discuss breaking DVD or BluRay encryption, copying, or "ripping" commercial, copy-protected DVDs.
    • This includes DVDs or BluRays you own. Even if you own the DVD or BluRay, it is still technically illegal under the DMCA to break the encryption. While some may argue otherwise, until the law is rewritten or the US Supreme Court strikes it down, we will adhere to the current intent of the law.
    • You may discuss ripping or copying unprotected movies or homemade DVDs.
    • You may discuss ripping or copying tools in the context that they are used for legal purposes as outlined in this post.

DVD copying...

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appreciate some asistance...please !!!! have just read the 'announcement' re dvd ripping and quickly note my request is strictly LEGAL ripping ..whatever that is ???.. have just spent a frustrating half hour trying to decipher the pluses and minuses of the 'wondershare' dvd copying/converting/etc programmes and now completely confused!!!too many variations ,too many programmes ..which all seem to duplicate one another???.
where can i find a laymans breakdown of 'how to' copy a dvd on my mac ..
without incurring the roth of the gods??.... a simple means and programme to hopefully give me a quality end result ???.
 

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If it's truly not a commercial DVD, all you need is Handbrake.

Alternatively, you can use Disk Utility to make a disc image.
 
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Did my answer get removed?
 

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Did my answer get removed?

Absolutely, it did. We don't refer people to software that breaks encryption - because that would be illegal (at least in the US).
 
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I prefer toast and/or popcorn for mac. They are both great programs and very reliable. I end up with very few coasters and most if the time it is a defect in the disc, not a fault of the programs.
 
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Absolutely, it did. We don't refer people to software that breaks encryption - because that would be illegal (at least in the US).

Ah ok, apologies. I didn't realise that we couldn't mention that software at all.
 

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