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    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.
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Hi everyone

I am not sure I can find a thread that answers my question and wonder if anyone can offer me a clearly understood explanation.

What I am looking to do, is to copy a commercial movie DVD onto my hard drive, so that I can watch the movie when I am travelling without the bother of having to carry the DVD disk as well. Two questions:

1. Can this be done and what software is available to do this? and,
2. Is it legal? ( I live in the UK and subject to English Law).

Many thanks
 
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:Oops: still not legal to copy commercial movie DVD's your personally bought or own mate. Believe me, I feel the pain of this too.
 
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Well, all I wanted to do was to put a DVD on my hard drive so I could watch a movie whilst on a long-distance train journey from London to Edinburgh :)
 
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ursus262 said:
Well, all I wanted to do was to put a DVD on my hard drive so I could watch a movie whilst on a long-distance train journey from London to Edinburgh :)
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Regardless of how "simple" your desires are...it makes it no less illegal!;)

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Unfortunately, it is still not legal to copy the disks to HDD. An option you may want to look at is to rent/buy the movie in Itunes instead of renting/buying the dvd. This will be playable on your journey.
 
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Actually the OP infers that he is in England, and the laws might well be different there.

However, this forum goes by US laws, and in the US it is illegal to defeat the DVD encryption protection even for personal use. Ridiculous, I know, but there you are. We in Canada have a good laugh over this on a routine basis. :)

Here's a suggestion for you: rent the movie from iTunes and download it before the trip but DO NOT start watching it until you are on the trip. Yes, I know the movie rental will cost a couple of quid but OTOH your time is valuable too isn't it? And that ripping etc business will take quite some time to do anyway.

Obviously that's not a permanent solution, but for a one-off it's probably worthy the coin. You have 30 days to START watching the rented film, but once you start you only have 48 hours to finish it, so bear that in mind. Enjoy your trip!
 

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