Fin Fang Foom Wonders About Copying DVDs

[Fin Fang Foom]

Not that I would EVER do such a thing, but I'm curious about something........

 

There's always a WARNING at the beginning of DVDs saying it's illegal to copy DVDs. How would one do that if one wanted to risk having a SWAT team crash through their living room window, get thrown to the floor, their bag of Cheetos stomped on, handcuffed, dragged to the jailhouse, found guilty, fined, thrown into prison, fucked daily in the shower by Buck, Leroy and Juan, get drepressed and commit suicide using a sheet as a noose?

 

I looked at the info on a DVD and it had over 7G of info and blank DVDs are only 4.7.

 

Which one of you information pirates knows how to do this?

 

Curiously yours,

 

FFF

[guptasa1]

I've never actually tried this because I don't have a D/L (dual-layer) burner, but that's where the 7 GB comes from I think.

 

The 4.7 one's you mention are single-layer. Most commercial DVD's are dual-layer. They now make dual-layer burners that can, I believe, burn the full 7 GB. (Since I've never done this, my information may not be 100% accurate, but it is to the best of my knowledge).

 

Alternatively, there are programs that, again I believe, will take a DVD and compress the video enough to fit it on the DVD. Or you can remove the special features, etc., and fit higher quality video on there. Roxio's stuff can do this I think, but I've never actually done one to verify - that's just how I think it works. I know I've burned a TV program I downloaded online on a video CD before for use in my DVD player, and it compressed it to a burnable size.

 

And as far as having law enforcement bust down your door or something, the truth is this isn't that well regulated. Nobody knows if you copy a DVD or something illegally unless they happen to see it, you share it online (which is still relatively safe despite some lawsuits, criminal investigations), etc. (Plus, I think it's legal to copy a DVD you already own for archiving purposes anyways.)

[Guest ncm2169]

Just had a nice long convo with a very cute young (early 20-something) clerk named Josh at Sam's Club who explained exactly how to do it.

 

Damn. For some reason I don't remember a thing he said. x( However, he IS available for private consulting. }(

[taylorky]

what a non-surprise...he's a thief.

[+ deej]

>However, he IS available for private consulting. }(

 

Even if he just hooks up the equipment so it works properly, he'd probably be worth it. More so if he can set your VCR's clock so it isn't blinking [blink]12:00[/blink].

 

;-)

[jackhammer91406]

More so if he can set your VCR's

>clock so it isn't blinking [blink]12:00[/blink].

 

 

Very nice Deej. Your skills continue to amaze and educate.

Thanks buddy

;-)

[PoppedRice]

There are freeware utilities available that will allow you to fit a 7+Gb onto a 4.7 GB DVD. One of them is called DVD Shrink, and its maintained by the open source community. Couple that with some other freely available nifty utils like DVD Decrypter, and you can do basically whatever with DVDs.

 

http://www.videohelp.com/ forums have tons of tutorials. Of course, caveats apply that your doing this for your own legal purpose of backing up your original DVD!

 

-Popped

(finally delurking)

[noviceny]

"something illegally unless they happen to see it, you share it online (which is still relatively safe despite some lawsuits, criminal investigations),"

 

Be careful with the online shit like KAZZA that is shareware. I am working with a family now who are being sued

[+ deej]

Unfortunately, most viewers won't have any clue what you're talking about. The BLINK attribute doesn't work in IE, which is about 80% of web surfers. (At least that's the # for other sites I run, not sure about this site.)

[jackhammer91406]

Based on a poster's recommendation from this site, I switched to mozilla firefox. I am happy with their ad ware block and pop up blocking, but there's no way to load in the spell check as I did in IE. The spell check program also came from a poster here, in fact it may have been Hooboy.

Anyway, I miss the spell check, but sure enjoyed seeing that [bLINK]12:00[/bLINK] blink.

[MichiganMan]

I've been using DVD shrink and burning flawless "backup" copies for myself for a couple of months now. To my knowledge, burning a backup copy for yourself is legal...

[+ deej]

I'm using Firefox too, and am just about ready to uninstall it.

 

>The spell check program also came from a

>poster here, in fact it may have been Hooboy.

 

Was it this one?

 

http://babydb.male4malescorts.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=13&topic_id=1322&mesg_id=1322&page=4

[jackhammer91406]

Was it this one?

 

http://babydb.male4malescorts.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=13&topic_id=1322&mesg_id=1322&page=4

 

It was in the same thread and was suggested by VDN. iespell.com Only works with IE.

Wish they made one for Firefox.

What is it about firefox that you are unhappy with?

[+ deej]

>It was in the same thread and was suggested by VDN.

 

I like dredging up that link from time to time because it has multiple suggestions.

 

>Wish they made one for Firefox.

 

I thought there was a plug-in.

 

>What is it about firefox that you are unhappy with?

 

Stability. I get 4-6 crashes or hangs daily. It also makes the mouse go a little wacky. (That's a technical term.)

 

There are features I like, but I'm not sure they outweigh the time I'm spending rebooting. :-(

[Boston Guy]

Deej:

 

I've been using Firefox for four months now, multiple tabs open at all times (usually six to eight at once), and have never once -- not one single time -- had a crash of the browser much less something that affected the OS.

 

There has to be something wrong with your installation. Are you using it on a Windows-based machine?

 

Regarding spell check for FF, yes, there is a very effective plug-in that works great:

 

http://babydb.male4malescorts.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=4&topic_id=80350&mesg_id=80350

 

BG

[+ deej]

Multiple computers and multiple OS's, bg. There's obviously some site/combination in my daily work life that's incompatible. :-(

 

Not gonna lose any sleep over it. After working in Visual Studio all these years I've had quite ENOUGH of tabbed interfaces anyway. LOL

[jackhammer91406]

>Regarding spell check for FF, yes, there is a very effective

>plug-in that works great:

>

>http://babydb.male4malescorts.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=4&topic_id=80350&mesg_id=80350

>

>BG

BG,

I appreciate that link. I went to the site and downloaded the program, but as yet have been unable to find it after the download. But I will keep trying.

Thanks

[Boston Guy]

Jack -

 

If you've installed the Firefox plug-in, try this:

 

1. Reply to this message.

2. Type some text.

3. Right-click someplace in the text window (the one you're typing in).

 

You should see an option to "Check Spelling" on the small menu that pops up. Choose that and you'll get a dialog box that allows you to check the spelling and make corrections.

 

It works in any text window.

 

Happy spelling,

BG

[JamesK840]

It's only getting worse from here...

 

>I've been using DVD shrink and burning flawless "backup"

>copies for myself for a couple of months now. To my knowledge,

>burning a backup copy for yourself is legal...

 

We all agree that it should be (somebody with kids, for example, should be able to make a copy of the latest Pixar DVD they own for the kids to destroy instead of the original). But my understanding of the law is that the DMCA makes it illegal because you're defeating copy protection in the process. (Disney seems to figure replacement of damaged/destroyed media into their profit margin, they were the most resistant to DVD though luckily for them it hasn't proven to be the indestructible format it was hyped as--not that there aren't new techniques and coatings that could make DVDs nearly indestructible, mind you, but Disney wouldn't use them if they were free or even lowered costs.)

 

Not that the law (or laughable copy protection) stops anyone, or that they routinely come after people making copies for true personal use/backup, but they do continue to do their best to defeat these uses and they DO go after the people who make ways to get around the protections.

 

Yet another example of corporate interests run-amuck in America, and on these issues there's no political base to turn to as many of the Democrats (especially in California) are the elected representatives of Disney, Time Warner, and Sony Pictures instead of the people in their districts.

 

My phone and hundreds (if not thousands) of other devices on the market now (including Sony's PSP--I love how Sony's often fighting itself) can playback movies from some type of onboard memory, but IT IS ILLEGAL to transfer most movies onboard. They're doing whatever they can to make it harder to actually do.

 

IF IT WAS UP TO THE CURRENT BATCH OF (corporate controlled) LEGISLATORS WE WOULDN'T HAVE VCRs, TiVos, PHOTOCOPIERS, or god knows what else. The funny thing is, the movie industry fought against the existence of VCRs and even DVDs which are now a cornerstone of their profit, and anybody that doesn't know the RIAA is full of shit about their sales problems being based solely on the existence of MP3s (arguments I'm sure they made in the past about audio tape) probably has the president fighting to keep a feeding tube in them.

 

If you want to DO SOMETHING please CONSIDER JOINING THE EFF. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has been fighting idiotic anti-consumer and anti-personal freedom laws for quite a while now and can use all the help they can get! http://www.eff.org/

Give them the money you would've spent on the DVDs you copied! }(

[jackhammer91406]

BG,

Nope, doesn't work. I have downloaded twice. I get a window that says the spell program will be in place when I restart Firefox, but it never happens.

Looks like you guys will be stuck with my bad typos and spelling. But hey, the spelling thing works for Vincent.