Hd Dvd Ripping Tools ??

[scottyg]

Does anybody know of any HD DVD ripping tools available online for free ? CPU storage is becoming cheap enough to where it may make sense.

 

[avaserfi]

Look into AnyDVD as it has the ability to rip DVDs, Blu-ray and HD DVDs. I have never seen it used for anything but DVDs and know it works well for that application. I am unsure of the rest, but it should work well.

http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvd.html

 

[jonnythan]

Highly illegal

 

[avaserfi]

Very good point.

Highly illegal

I didn't see any questions about the legality of the procedure he just asked how to do it so I told him . I guess that some sort of disclaimer should have been made by me.

 

[jonnythan]

Just a warning, because I don't think the admins take kindly to.. facilitating or teaching illegal activities

 

[avaserfi]

Just a warning, because I don't think the admins take kindly to.. facilitating or teaching illegal activities

Thanks. I guess, I figured showing someone a program with certain capabilities wasn't too bad. If it is I hope a moderator sees the thread soon and deletes it.

 

[Adam]

Unless they've changed the rules (or I'm wrong in my impression of them), it's not illegal to make copies of your own discs.

The OP never said that it was going to be used to copy anything besides personally owned material, so no need to worry about your response!

 

[WmAx]

Does anybody know of any HD DVD ripping tools available online for free ? CPU storage is becoming cheap enough to where it may make sense.

While commercial ware and freeware exist to make copies of your legally owned HD-DVD and Blue Ray discs, please realize that in many countries, including the United States, it is illegal to bypass the encryption, even if you own the disc and wish to exercise fair use(it is a ridiculous scenario; conflicting rights/laws).

With this being said, the freeware version of DVDFAB can copy unencrypted discs, among other things.

-Chris

 

[WmAx]

Unless they've changed the rules (or I'm wrong in my impression of them), it's not illegal to make copies of your own discs.

The OP never said that it was going to be used to copy anything besides personally owned material, so no need to worry about your response!

It is not illegal to copy the disc. It is illegal to bypass the encryption. It just so happens that you need to break the encryption to copy the disc. Fair use laws protect your right to copy media that you own for your personal use. But in 1998, congress allowed the DMCA to be signed into law, thus bypassing your fair use rights if the manufacturer of the media saw fit to do remove those rights by way of this process. Strange indeed, since the fair use provision was designed to establish fixed rights for intellectual property use that could not be bypassed by the intellectual property owners. Classic catch 22.

 

[Adam]

Thanks for the explanation, Chris.

 

[scottyg]

I think alot of people like to back up their dvd collections and will soon start once it becomes affordable for hd dvd.........this is still a debate but people seem to have forgotten about stealing music and peer to peer sharing with ipods......think that is a little more out of hand. I think in the near future everyone will be doing it.