Want to make backup copies of your DVDs? This utility, normally $35.95, will clone even copy-protected discs. But act fast: the offer expires at the end of the day. Rick Broida is the author of ...

March 3, 2004 -- One week after a California court ruled that DVD XCopy violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 321 Studios removed the ripping engine ...

The California Supreme Court on Monday upheld an order barring a Bay Area programmer from posting a program on his Web site that could be used to illegally copy DVD movies. In a unanimous decision, ...

A US company selling software called DVD X Copy which bypasses copyright protection mechanisms on DVDs has complied with a Californian court order to rid the software of its “ripper”. Since the court ...

After a four-week trial that commenced on November 14, 2011, Judge William J. Monahan of the California Superior Court ruled in favor of the DVD CCA (DVD Copy Control Association), marking the end of ...

In a ruling made public today, the Paris Court of Appeal has decided (English translation here) that the Content Scrambling System used to copy protect the contents of DVDs is trumped by the fair use ...

What is the best format to rip DVD? There is no single answer to this question. If you want to convert DVD for playback on a mobile device, MP4 is a good choice. If you want to create a 1:1 copy to ...

The latest release of the VLC media player is a huge hit, racking up nearly 8.6 million downloads since the 1.0 release last week, according to the makers of the software VideoLAN. But some observers ...

PowerDVD Copy, developed by CyberLink, enables you to make backup copies of DVDs that you own. If your business stores photos, videos or other data on DVD, backup copies can come in handy if you lose ...

You need something to strip the macrovision signal from your VCR's output. These are harder to get in these post-DMCA days, but they're still around, often disguised as "video stabilizers". In fact a ...