Whether it's legal in your country or not is determined by your country's laws. But since this website is based in the United States, it's subject to U.S. law, and that means discussion of breaking any copy protection is illegal.
What's absolutely brilliant is that at the same time as you are saying this, there is a link on your website to a free DVD ripping software... Right down here, at the bottom of this forum, in this very thread. I mean, you must be joking...!!!
LOL
Let's be serious a minute, anyway.
Music copyrights exist too, still Windows OS supply millions of users with "Windows Media Player", which rips and burns music CD's.
Are you saying WMP is illegal in the States?
I don't see why movies would be different to music when it comes to rights (or photography for that matter. I can copy and paste a photo for my own use. The only thing I can't do is use it for hiring, public performance, radio/TV broadcasting, profit-making business, etc...). I can also copy a song and put it into another HD, copy it again and put it into my car stereo, then copy again and into my Ipod, etc, etc... No copyrights infringement here.
Actually, on my DVD's, it clearly stipulates that reproduction for one's own personal use is indeed legal (and they are movies anybody could legally and easily tape off the TV with a VHS or DVD recorder if they were shown on a TV channel. I mean: they merely are the same movies!!!)
I think you've got your wires crossed.
There are speed limits on the roads, still all cars on the market can go faster than the speed limit. That does not make cars illegal. It's only the (mis-)use of a car that can be deemed illegal (nor would it be illegal to discuss online what top speed could be achieved whilst driving such and such model of motor - even though we all know those top speeds are clearly against the law).
Likewise, it's the misuse of copyrights that is illegal.
And "personal use" does not fall into that category. Owning (or even designing) a simple program like WMP would otherwise be illegal... But it is not.
And recording a film on TV with a video recorder would also be illegal... But it is not.
