Ripping DVDs and copying from Blockbuster...
 

What's the best way to do this? I have that "No Late Fees" deal from Blockbuster, but they only let you checkout 2 at a time, so, I am thinking about just copying the ones that I rent, and watching them later.

I figure if it takes 4 hours to copy 2 movies, I could return to Blockbuster 2 or 3 times per day, and pump out about 6 to 8 movies.

Eventually, I should have all of the Blockbuster titles, and I can cancel my membership.

Any tips on doing this?

Dont think you will cancel your membership, remember the movies will never end. The thing you can do is go to rent more movies, cheaper and with the same quality to another DVD´s rental place

just spend a bit more money on renting. Pretty dumb to admit that shit here.

Threads like this usually get locked :winkwink:

use a program like dvd shrink

Hmm.. Good points. This is a joke thread by the way. Not really looking for tips. I'm sure I could figure it out if I were so inclined.

with dvd-shrink, you can rip/burn a movie in under an hour.

you're limited to only 2 movies at a time? my store has no limits that i know of. i took out 8 dvds the other week.

Why not use netflix and save yourself all those trips to the store.

Nice! Yeah, they have a limit of 2. It's a smaller Blockbuster, so their stock isn't all that. Usually everything is checked out when I go there, so I end up having to watch old movies from the garbage aisles.

DVD decryptor -> Nero Image Drive to mount the decrypted image -> DVD Shrink to reauthor it to DVD. Or DVD X Copy Express, but you won't be able to reauthor the ripped dvd.

Hey where do you live, because I don't feel like paying for a place to live anymore so I thought I would just take your house. I don't feel like buying food either, so I will eat yours.

What a fucking idiot. I have never understood this mentality. It's stealing plain and simple. Just because it's a movie, or a song doesn't make it any different than stealing a fucking car.

It's called copyright violation buddy, and if you were any sort of "artist" you would understand.

Hey what does your woman look like, I might want to steal her too. Wouldn't be so hard I suspect, as you probably don't have enough money to buy her Mc'D's. :321GFY

You might want to read this too.

"Teen convicted under interntet piracy law"
http://apnews.excite.com/article/200...D88MHKSO0.html

Hey smartass... he has to pay for each movie he rents.

You're an idiot. Read 5 posts above yours.

Exactly, and maybe he is just burning them so he can have a nice dvd collection? I see nothing wrong with it.

Oh yeah, and go with Netflix bro! :thumbsup

what's the difference between renting a PPV movie and taping it and copying a rented DVD for personal use?

It doesn't, some people just like to act self right righteous!

why not wait for the dual layer dvdr media to get a little cheaper then dupe with full quality before going through all the effort

depending on your TV, the quality difference will usually go unnoticed.

Sounds about right.

:pimp

go with netflix and you wont copy all the dvds in their library.. dont waste your time, i mean unless you really want to, be my guest

All that isn't necessary. With the new DVD-Shrink, it'll decrypt, allow you to reauthor and then rip/burn all in the same program. In fact, if you're not reauthoring, you can rip/burn a DVD in less than 5 clicks.

The key word is "rents" in your sentence. If he wants to "own" it try paying the 19.95.
If I rent a car, does that mean I can just keep it for my own if I want.

if you rented a car and then built a replica of it using your own parts and the rented car as a model, would that be wrong?

If he wants to have a nice dvd collection, I hear there is a novel thing called buying the dvd. Have you heard of something called money. You use it to pay for things that you want that other people have made.

You're probably the first one to bitch if someone copies your site. Then again, you probably don't have any sites that someone would want to copy.

are you a member of the same GFY?

I have modded XBox that's in my network. I just rip the disc image to my XBox and then FTP from the XBox to my PC (with a few hundred gig of storage) and watch from there. Burn to DVD if needed. Works for games and movies and requires no modchip and 20 minutes of your time.

http://xboxsoftmods.com

The XBox is my Media Center.

Ok, so I didn't use a good analogy. These are probably the same guys fuskering your site, or spoofing it.

do you work for Blockbuster?

You used a fine analogy, but you used it to support a weak argument.

And saying that people who copy rented movies are the same people who steal content is quite a stretch.

I guess you abide by every single law?

I would figure...

If he's paying to rent the movie he's not paying to have the movie itself in his possession, he's paying for the rights to watch that movie. It's intellectual property, like software. The dvd itself is worth nothing, so the same backup copy rules would apply but in this case the license to view the video only exists for a short period of time.

Copying it would be perfectly legal, watching it more than once in the future... maybe not? But im no lawyer.

I'm no lawyer though, haha

why would u wanna back up every dvd just a waste of space and time...

Just copy the good ones FUCK Blockbuster just get flix save time to the trips to the store

No, I just hate cheap fuckers that can find a way to justify stealing. That's what it is, plain and simple.

Whether or not it's stealing is debateable and actually a grey area of the law.

Explain to me the difference. How about this. I buy a membership to your site, and then give my password to 100 of my closest friends. I payed for the membership, whats wrong with me sharing it.

Tell that to all the people being prosecuted by the music industry for downloading mp3's. They're just copies, right?

Fucking surfers.

Oh give me a break... it's completely different than stealing a car.

There's no one that will suffer because he copied a movie from the video store. The video store made it's money by him renting it, and the production company made it's money selling the license to the video store. They both profited.

Plus, this isn't "art"... motion pictures are mass produced and marketed to make money. And the majority of movies comming out are terrible. You think the video store will give you your money back if you bring it back the next day and tell them you didn't get your money's worth? fat chance.

Correction, for sharing/uploading mp3's... I'd like you to find one case where someone was prosecuted for simply downloading mp3's.

You're an idiot...

He didn't say copy the movie he rented and distribute copies to 100 of his closest friends.