DVD Ripping frustration

dave1701

dave1701

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Firstly: I LEGALLY bought a DVD (Batman) with a digital copy. The DRM crap on digital copies pisses me off in the first place, but I looked past that. I put the "digital copy" disk in and it wants me to install some shitty digital rights management software. I did that, and finally get to the part where I actually get the digital copy. I enter the little verification code and get prompted with a dialogue box saying that my digital copy that I bought has EXPIRED. No wonder people steal movies on line. I have never used torrents to get my media because I think that credit should be given to the producers of the material. But this "Digital Copy" stuff is a complete rip off. I should be able to get a non-DRM protected file of the movie. If they didn't make so much CRAP in the process of getting a digital copy I think a lot more people would actually buy a digital copy. This whole DRM thing with movies is total BS.

So I decide to tell Warner Bros to shove it and rip the DVD. I use the crappy free trial of DVDfab which after 10 hours of encoding exports a DVD file that is of unwatchable quality. I tried to preview the encoding in handbrake and even the preview was screwed up with that.

Not wanting to waste any more of my time I am now for the first time in my life going to figure out how to torrent "Batman- The Dark Night" because I am so pissed of at whoever makes this shit.

Sorry, I just wanted to rant about that for a little.

Can someone explain to me the reason behind all the crap behind getting a digital copy of movies? I spend money, time and effort on getting a DRM protected file that I can't even play on half of my devices.
 
Well, firstly, discussion of illegal material (including the illegal download of movies), is of course prohibited on forums.

Secondly, film studios place such security features on these files to prevent people from taking this file and loading it onto a DVD and/or selling it. If people were honest, then film companies could trust others with not illegally distributing their content and such measures would not need to be used. I am not completely sure why time limits are placed on the digital copy downloads (especially from iTunes, which I use) and I have, too, been frustrated with this. Perhaps someone else knows why such time limits are placed on the download files.

In regards to DVD ripping, there is plenty of free software out there to help with this. I've used Handbrake in the past with great fortune. What settings are you using? Also, what region is the DVD?
 
Handbrake makes the video look like this:

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Those dvd's are copy-protected. You can't just rip them. They won't allow it. You have to have special software to rip those dvd's which is illegal.
However, if you just want to copy it to your computer to watch it when you are travel and don't want to carry the original disk, you can just use the record button on vlc player to save it on your computer when you watch the movie. the quality is not great but watchable.
Cheesrs.
 
The DRM copy protection is on there because people are idiots and torrent the movies. (not saying you, your pissed and I understand that, its more pointed to the guys that upload the torrents).

If you want to rip the DVD on your computer, there are some programs that do it. I know there is a free one on Ubuntu that does an excellent job. Give me a bit and I will find the name of it.
 
Acidrip is the name of the app.

It will save a copy to your HDD, and you can move the copy to a flashkey or external HDD (or like me, over to the Windows partition).
 
I don't have linux unfortunately. I'm trying DVD decrypter, because like I said I am unfamiliar with torrents and have cooled down a bit. (and I don't want any viruses)
 
You could try a live boot on a 6+ GB flashkey and try to run it. I don't know if it will install on a live boot.
Otherwise, if you have at least 6GB of free HDD space, you could install linux with no problem and have it there just for DVD ripping should you need it.
 
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