Can I copy cds and dvds with WIn 7?

[Ophelia]

There is much free software available which will copy DVDs. If you are
rubbish at surfing, look at computer magazines - they quite often have
free dvds containing such software. At the risk of being accused, if you
don't even want to do that, try Ashampoo, which is free and works beaut
and even beauter if you have 2 drives. Don't use it for illegal purposes
or you might not go to heaven. Come to think of it you might not anyway,
so don't do it anyway.

<g>

 

[Alex Clayton]

@4ax.com:


So you are highly against s/w piracy, as you'd pointed ou tin no uncertain
terms, yet don't think twice about illegally copying encrypted DVD's.

Copying an encrypted DVD *is* piracy....why do you think it's encrypted ?

Would you consider that hypocritical ?

The dvdfab is great. I love to be able to put a DVD on the HD to play back.
I often watch at work, and don't want to have to take the disc. I don't make
copies to give or sell, just watch then delete. As far as I am concerned the
studios have done it to themselves.
Real tried to make software to allow this that would only let play the
copy on the computer you made it on. The studios spent all kinds of money
fighting them. They beat Real, so now they have people making copies that
can be sold or given away. I have tried a few of these programs you have to
buy, and they often did not work. Tried one free one a while back that often
works. Had a couple new discs today that it would not work on, but the
dvdfab did. Will be worth buying.
If people make copies to give or sell, too damn bad. The people losing
fought Real to make them stop making one that would not allow piracy.

 

[Joel]

Some video DVDs use techniques beyond the ridiculously simple
"encryption" that region coding provides. If you have trouble using
ImgBurn/DVD Decrypter with any particular discs, try:

http://www.dvdfab.com/free.htm

A new comment on DVDFab: Until now, I had never needed to use it when
the free trial of the relevant feature wasn't still available (I had
used it once on a rented DVD on my old XP installation, and on another
rented DVD and a couple Blu-Rays on my previous 7 installation, but
happened to reinstall 7 not long after getting my Blu-Ray drive, but
did rip one more Blu-Ray after that).

I had always assumed that the ripping-to-hard-drive feature would
still work, based on the info in the above link, but at least for
Blu-Rays, that may not be accurate (I haven't ripped a DVD with it
since reinstalling 7, so that trial timer hasn't started again yet).

There was no way to select my Blu-Ray drive or anything else as the
source, and the section in the settings dialog for Blu-Ray protections
wasn't available, but despite feeling misled about that feature being
free, I couldn't for the life of me find another program that seemed
worth using (including AnyDVD HD, its main competitor), so I went
ahead and bought the lifetime subscription to DVDFab's Blu-Ray to
Blu-Ray feature.

Even just to be able to play discs I own from my hard drive
(currently, my computer is my only Blu-Ray player), it's useful (not
to mention being able to borrow/rent discs and still have them on my
hard drive), and I don't mind supporting their efforts at
circumventing the evil schemes that try to prevent people from using
their legally obtained discs the way they prefer.