If they charge someone money to do it, they are breaking the law.
You seem to be the only one here who believes this. The rest of us seem to agree that altering one's own, legal copy is legal.
Courts have held in many cases that anything may be copied for personal use (backup, etc.) without violation. The DVD's with copy protection seem to be, legally speaking, a new beast. No other material has been protectable in this way before, so the subject hadn't come up. It seems to me that the legal principle still applies: that anything done to copy a work strictly for the personal use of its owner and no other should be OK.
Sorry Chris, whether you and others believe it or not is, with all due respect, irrelevant. The laws are clear on all this.
Let me ask you, what do you know about the DVD Authoring process? Seriously.
Do you honestly think what these people are doing is are just simply editing? Do you really understand what all needs to happen to do this "simple editing"?
Again, people doing this are nothing more than Hackers.
Here, why don't you try and obtain a copy of DVD X Copy (Platinum, Silver, or Gold).
Oooops, you can't.
Why?
Because the Courts found that such software (used to make those "personal back-ups" circumvents the Copy Protections to make the copies.
BTW, did you know that DVD distributors pay BIG money for that Macrovision copy protection?
Sorry Chris, bottom line here, aside from the fact that this case had NOTHING to do with "personal back-ups", which renders that whole argument moot, what it DID cover was companies illegally copying, illegally remanufacturing, and then selling illegal copies of copyrighted material.
Do you REALLY defend that?