Rip DVDs to your iPod or PSP for Free

a href=”http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirilloShow”>Add to iTunes</a> What’s the Best OS for Data Storage and Stability? How to Switch Operating Systems: Linux, Windows, OS X PC or Mac for Education?Rip DVDs to your iPod or PSP for FreeThe Windows Vista Challenge Have You or Are You Switching from PC to Mac? Mac Freeware to Help you Deal with Windows Files Why I’m Switching Back to Windows XP from Mac OS X The Microsoft Windows Vista Rant Continues

a href=”http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirilloShow”>Add to iTunes</a> What’s the Best OS for Data Storage and Stability? How to Switch Operating Systems: Linux, Windows, OS X PC or Mac for Education?Rip DVDs to your iPod or PSP for FreeThe Windows Vista Challenge Have You or Are You Switching from PC to Mac? Mac Freeware to Help you Deal with Windows Files Why I’m Switching Back to Windows XP from Mac OS X The Microsoft Windows Vista Rant Continues

a href=”http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirilloShow”>Add to iTunes</a> What’s the Best OS for Data Storage and Stability? How to Switch Operating Systems: Linux, Windows, OS X PC or Mac for Education?Rip DVDs to your iPod or PSP for FreeThe Windows Vista Challenge Have You or Are You Switching from PC to Mac? Mac Freeware to Help you Deal with Windows Files Why I’m Switching Back to Windows XP from Mac OS X The Microsoft Windows Vista Rant Continues

a href=”http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirilloShow”>Add to iTunes</a> What’s the Best OS for Data Storage and Stability? How to Switch Operating Systems: Linux, Windows, OS X PC or Mac for Education?Rip DVDs to your iPod or PSP for FreeThe Windows Vista Challenge Have You or Are You Switching from PC to Mac? Mac Freeware to Help you Deal with Windows Files Why I’m Switching Back to Windows XP from Mac OS X The Microsoft Windows Vista Rant Continues

a href=”http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirilloShow”>Add to iTunes</a> What’s the Best OS for Data Storage and Stability? How to Switch Operating Systems: Linux, Windows, OS X PC or Mac for Education?Rip DVDs to your iPod or PSP for FreeThe Windows Vista Challenge Have You or Are You Switching from PC to Mac? Mac Freeware to Help you Deal with Windows Files Why I’m Switching Back to Windows XP from Mac OS X The Microsoft Windows Vista Rant Continues

Homepage: http://live.pirillo.com Show Notes:http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/09/28/rip-dvds-to-your-ipod-or-psp-for-free/

It shouldn’t be wrong, but the MPAA and the RIAA and our idiots in Congress think it is. If DVDs came unencrypted then it wouldn’t be a problem. But they do, and the Digital Millenium Copyright Act makes it illegal to break encryption. It’s stupid, and it should be trumped by our “fair use” rights, but so far it hasn’t worked out that way.

Maybe someday we’ll get a good ruling on all of this and we can stop hiding. As consumers, we should have the right to do what we want with our purchased content, but we’ll have to convince the labels and studios that they can’t get away with trying to charge us multiple times for the same content (as they’ve done for the last 50 years by simply updating and changing formats). It’s going to take a long time.

[...] by Chris Pirillo: how to rip DVDs and audio CDs so that they can be played on your iPod? Use [...]

I use DVD Decrypter and then AutoGK to change my DVDs into Xvid format, so I can watch them over my network or on my TV much faster and safer than watching the DVDs themselves. I’ll checkout Handbrake though, as it’s my favorite part of a car :)

As an example of how important it is to back up your data, I have a disk that is part of super mega special edition wide screen version that I’ve watched no more than 4 times, yet it no longer wants to play anymore, in anything. It doesn’t have scratches and it isn’t warped, it simply will not play. Replacing it would mean replacing the whole box set just for the one disk! So, having a computer format version (which I do not have of this disk…) is a great way to avoid damaging expensive originals. Incidently, this is why it is legal in Canada to make a backup copy of your media. Still, you are not supposed to share said backup with others.

One thing that I feel should be pointed out as well is that there is simply no comercial alternative to buying a DVD and changing the format so one can watch it on one’s ipod. Now, there are many titles for the PSP in the little disk format, but most of them are Sony titles, so it’s still logical to say that there isn’t any comercial alternative. With the Nintendo DS, this is even more the case, as you’ll need 3rd party hardware and software to view movies on it. Consiquently, what are we to do? Just not watch movies on these devices? Just not live “the future” that is all around us? I think not.

Every time I go to a major retailer I marvel at the floor space that is taken up by DVDs and CDs. All of this space could be put to better use if the retailers were install an SD card vending machine, where you walk up and punch in the media you want and less than a minute later, out pops an SD card with your media on it. Doing it this way, as aposed to a wireless lan or USB interface gives some assurance that the vending machine won’t be hacked or taken out of service by a virus.

Anyhow, until there truly is a viable comercial alternative to changing the format of your DVDs to suite your usage, please don’t feel bad about doing it – it’s not your fault that the big media companies are living in the past!

At Ourmedia’s Learning Center, we have an article on this:

Rip and watch movies and TV shows
How to rip DVDs and record TV for on-the-go video entertainment
http://ourmedia.org/node/269886

What the law says and what the culture is doing are two completely different things. Someone should write a book about it.

Oh, wait. I did: Darknet.com :~)