Comments on: Why Isn’t Copying DVDs Easier?

By: PhoneBoy

PhoneBoy — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 07:13:39 +0000

@martin: I don’t use Windows for this stuff. Next.

@ricky: Bittorrent FTW.

@irfan: I ended up doing it in Linux because I have–or had when I wrote this–two DVD drives in this machine. I didn’t know about Popcorn on the Mac. Hm…

By: Irfon-Kim Ahmad

Irfon-Kim Ahmad — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:41:37 +0000

*Is* it hard, or did you choose a hard approach?

It seems like Popcorn can do this on the Mac trivially, and someone mentioned an app that can do it trivially on Windows.

By: Ricky

Ricky — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:59:03 +0000

I do this, too, somewhat, though frankly, I’ve found it easier to simply download the movie via torrent rather than go through the hassle of ripping it. Isn’t that sad?

It has to do with combatting piracy, and all that jazz.

By: Martin Schultz

Martin Schultz — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:56:06 +0000

Using DVD shrink in windows this is a piece of cake.

It copies the DVD so regular unprotected Video-ts files you can burn with any dvd burner, it can even shrink (compress) a dual layer DVD to fit on a single lay disc.