How to copy DVD

My kids would like to copy DVD from friends, could you please suggest best freeware software and how to go about it, how to compress file ?

Thanks

well 1. What your kids want to do is illegal
2. There is no free way to do it
3. http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1406

Okay no offense, but you guys have got to relax.

Yep...

Lets pretend he didn't say that and just *cough* the appropriate answer.

I use following Apps to make back up copys of my dvd's (like my band's new DVD):

Mactheripper ( to copy dvd 2 harddrive)
Handbrake (to compress the dvd for archival)

But only do this if you are legally allowed to / own the copyright..

DVD types

I have an eMac Superdrive latest model, if I use other recording software like Fast DVD copy, can I use a disc of the type DVD-RW, or DVD+R ?

I tried to copy into a DVD-RW but cannot be read by eMAC and my player.

Why that. In the market there are many DVD disc type, which ones can I use, not familiar with all this, quite confusing.

Appeciate your clarification

regards

Aptmunich said:

Yep...

Lets pretend he didn't say that and just *cough* the appropriate answer.

I use following Apps to make back up copys of my dvd's (like my band's new DVD):

Mactheripper ( to copy dvd 2 harddrive)
Handbrake (to compress the dvd for archival)

But only do this if you are legally allowed to / own the copyright..

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The Trooper said:

Okay no offense, but you guys have got to relax.

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It's not like I scolded the member or anything. I told them it was illegal and there was no free way to do it and then referred them to the thread that explains how to copy dvds

1. It looked like you were scolding him and trying to preach ethics
2. Nothing we say will influence whether or not his kids choose to continue with what they want to do

if i wanted to scold him/her i would have just closed the thread and said its discussing illegal activity and I know that we can't influence his/her kids but still wanted to state its illegal

trpnmonkey41 said:

well 1. What your kids want to do is illegal
2. There is no free way to do it
3. http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1406

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1) No one has to know
2) Only for personal use (If you sell it, then it's illegal)
3) What if i wanted to use a VHS off TV or DVD, same thing
4) Who cares!
5) Don't Do Warez... It's bad for the soul. Movies from hardcopies are ok.. i guess...


Depends on your ethics... But in Canada, downloading music is legal for personal use, downloading software is illegal, but 80 % of the kids do it these days.

But the poster said that her kids wanted to copy some of their friends DVD's which is illegal. You can copy your own DVD's for personal use

3) What if i wanted to use a VHS off TV or DVD, same thing

Please explain, I don't understand.



Movies from hardcopies are ok.. i guess...

Also this part, please clarify


Ciao

VHS off of your TV or your own DVD's is fine because you own the DVD (Not legal to do it to rented movies) and TV is a different issue because you are paying for the service so you can record shows to watch later (Which is why DVR's are legal) but you can't distribute them, give them to other people or copy them for other people legally

Well I don't see how taping a pay-per-view movie is any different from copying a rental. After all, you pay for those, right?

Taping a pay-per-view movie and copying rentals are both illegal because you are paying to view them for a period of time. You can copy a rented VHS or DVD and watch it but once your rental period is up then it becomes illegal.

When you rent a movie or purchase a movie on ppv you are essentially purchasing a license to that program for a certain period of time (PPV is the length of the movie, rentals are however long you rent it for). You can copy it as much as you want as long as the rental period or movie is still running but once the time runs out the license is expired and it becomes illegal

Well then how is that any different from taping a movie off regular TV? And what if you're not a cable or satellite subscriber? Is it suddenly illegal simply because you don't pay for any additional channels you don't necessarily need?

Under the betamax supreme court decision the govt declared it is legal under fair use to record shows off of your tv solely for the purpose of "time-shifting" which is basically so you can watch it at a more convenient time. Under the fair use laws you can not legally record any shows to "warehouse" them or to just keep them in a library of recordings. The RIAA says that “later” means that when you watch the recording once, your fair use time-shifting rights end, and you must erase the video. The Supreme court left a lot of issues unsolved in the decision because people can record a show and not watch it compiling a library of a certain show which is legal until an episode is watched in which case it is supposed to be erased

Right.....try telling that to some 12-year-old who has every Simpsons episode on tape. I'm sure you'll have no problem convincing them. If I choose to settle for a lower-quality, cut-up, watermarked version of Family Guy or South Park recorded from TV because I don't have $50 for the box set, there's no law that says I can't do that. Just because Fox or Comedy Central realised they could make lots of money selling something that was already licensed for the public domain doesn't mean I have to give them any of my money.

I never said I am convincing anybody of any laws....You asked me what the laws were and I told you what they are. Most people don't know the full extent of the law and most people don't abide by it...that's not my problem nor do I really care but when people ask about doing something illegal on these forums I will tell them that is illegal.

Actually there are laws saying you can't just record the Family guy or South Park epiodes and watch them over and over. You can watch them once under the fair use laws but after that what you are doing is illegal. Is anybody going to report you for this? No but that still doesn't change the fact that it is illegal.

Those shows are not licensed for public domain otherwise there wouldn't be any problems with people recording them and the networks wouldn't even bother to publish them in box sets.

The box sets are for people who don't want to go through the trouble of taping the program themselves. Also, they're guaranteed a high quality version with no skips because of commercials, and no annoying watermarks put there by the television network. Anyway, this is why I said you need to relax. It's also why the United States and other countries need to make changes to their copyright laws. Because when over 60 million of their citizens are apparently breaking the law, maybe the law is wrong.

I never said that I abide by all of the laws when it comes to the matters but on the boards I try to do my job which is try to keep the threads to allowable topics. The laws are fine but its just too easy for people to break them right now which is why they do. Since a majority of the world downloads music and break the law by doing so should everybody change the laws for music downloading?