Do You Know How To Copy A DVD?

Many people "Burn" copies of - their CDs Compact Discs - making copies of music, e-books, databases and just about everything. But what about DVDs? Do you know how to copy a DVD and is it legal? Let us consider the legal aspects, and we will investigate how about copying a DVD - a film, such as a recordable drive. Many of us are used to copy files to a CD - using "drag and drop" technology, where a number of files on your computer to drag and release them to the station where the CD alone. But copying a DVD is much more and there are legal issues to consider. Before we even get started on exactly how to copy a DVD, you should familiarize yourself with two important terms - encryption and copyright. LEGAL DISCLAIMER TIME: Now I'm no lawyer and no one to play in real life, so make sure you consult one in your area of residence before you on your own with this information. From what I understand it perfectly legal to copy a DVD to burn - as it is for your private use in your own home as a backup. For example - you an extensive collection of DVD movies, but you are concerned about your DVD's getting scratched from using it as much - so you may want to copies of these DVDs and keep them in a safe place for the least some of them get scratched. That is fine. But if your DVD is encrypted (as most movies are) - most software that allows you to make copies will not get around the encryption. (There are several sources that this type of software now, but it is up to you to find them.) Bottom line - if it is encrypted, you are not supposed to copy. Why? Because it says to copyright royalties payable to the person or the person studio or DVD - otherwise you are guilty of copyright infringement. If you only those videos for private use copying, you're probably okay, but burn them and sell them on eBay you into trouble with the Hollywood studio system and the government in a hurry. In the interest of protecting ... well, their interests, Hollywood studios came with a little encryption system called CSS or Content Scrambling System. This coding has nothing to do with free speech issues - It's all about money! The Hollywood studios figure that if all their money in making the film, the least you can do is pay them a royalty. It is amazing how many people are not willing to do that is the reason why the software was developed that allows you to go around the encryption. Otherwise your DVD copies just would not work. Now, of course the Hollywood studios and a few others have the "keys" to this system - after all, they designed it! But the rest of the non-paying public to depend on the free, independent spirits out there to come up with a way to do encryption, like they did. Circumventing this encryption is generally known in the biz as "ripping" a DVD (and of course copying the files to your computer hard drive) - see, you're already well on its way to a computer geek - "geek talk" and so . If you rip the DVD to the hard drive of your computer, you can tell if the size fits on one DVD. If not, then one of the choices available to you - make as compressing the data, or delete part of a split, so it occupies less space. When choosing a software package that allows you to rip DVD's you'll need to choose one that fits your needs. With this I mean, there are packages out there that will allow you to do it all - rip, compress, remove or split data, in addition to utilities that lets you play with the settings on your DVD and influence on the quality of your final copy. If you're not a computer geek, do not all these extra features - the quality is typically between one and a DVD that is ripped is usually very mild to the average user. If you're planning to go in the direction geek, you might want a higher quality of the finished product - in other words, if you're picky, choose a program with more features that allow you more control.