Posted on 10/13/2006 5:08:04 PM PDT by freedumb2003
Here's an idea... ~pay for~ the DVDs you want instead of trying to get them for nothing :~D
Movie DVDs aren't worth 'backing up'. If and when you 'wear out' your original, the movie's probably on the bargain rack. Buy it :~)
I think they are. I travel weekly and play my movies a LOT. Two of them in particular I play 4 or 5 times a week. That, plus the handling (no matter how careful) while travelling (with the bumps and bangs) and the DVDs start to get scratches and what have you.
Why should I pay 20 bucks a throw to buy a copy of something that I already own? I have no interest in copying things I don't own.
It failed -- with a generic "cannot perform function" error.
3 hours down the drain.
I'll keep looking
Here are a few ideas for you:
I own all the DVD's I've copied on to my hard drive multi-media center for my ease. Yes I'm lazy after a long day.
Young kids seem to be rather cavalier about things such as PB&J, buttered popcorn and such when handling their favorite movie dvds. Try finding the DVD box after a sat morning movie fest. Heck, try finding the DVD. Scratches happen.
Sometimes I load a few movies on my laptop for times when I'm away from home.
I consider them to be my property just as my books are. Quaint idea, that isn't it.
"Movie DVDs aren't worth back up"
Sez you. Some of the DVDs I have never had a broad viewer base. Even finding one copy has sometimes been difficult even on the bargain rack.
I suggest DVD-Shrink. For those DVDs that DVD-Shrink can not decrypt, use Slysoft Any-DVD in conjuction with DVD-Shrink.
Thanks. I've been using Shrink & Decrypt. So far I haven't encountered any problems. But then again, there as so few new movies that I care to watch much less buy.
When was the last time you made a photocopy of an entire book? Do what you want, but you have no ~right~ to think if you buy something once and break it, or scratch it, you shouldn't have to buy another one... These people are in the business of selling copies, not lifetime memberships.
If you want to copy something onto your computer because it's easier, fine... but it's not legitimate. Everyone in prison is innocent, and everyone who wants to know how to copy movies just wants to copy DVDs they rightfully own, right? :~)
If my book gets scratched or even torn, I can still repair it to make it readable. Not so with a CD or DVD. Make note of this, difficult as it may be to you, I am not selling copies nor giving my DVD's away. How does this impinge on on intellectual property rights?
So how many tapes do you have of broadcast or cable TV? How about TIVO? How about your mp3? Ever copy an vinyl alnum to casette tape or compile a cd of the tunes that you like? Did you ever photocopy a recipe from a book? Or save a web page or it's contents to your hard drive?
Be careful with that last question, as your disk cache can betray your secret theft, eh?
I've done all those things and worse, but I didn't pretend it was honest.
All the questions like this that get posted, not one person has ever admitted what they're really trying to do is copy things they've borrowed, rented, or downloaded from the internet. It's the righteous indignation that strikes me as funny :~D
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