

Copy Protection Strategies Region Coding Enhancement I will describe the use of the tools in more detail when I describe the process I use for backing up a DVD. I'll provide a brief description of the main roadblocks and suggest tools for dealing with them. There are a few different ways that DVD authors You are the excuse the media companies use to make our lives miserable. This post will hopefully help you to consume your legal content.Ī quick note: if you are reading this post to learn how to copy a DVD that you borrowed or rented from a service like RedBox, please stop being a jerk. In my effort to backup these DVDs I found that there are lots of instructions for Windows users, but not much current information for Linux people. Further, there is little point in purchasing a movie that can't be viewed on a mobile device that doesn't have a DVD drive.Įvery disk of the Avatar Series is corrupted in a slightly different way. I have small children who destroy things like DVD media, so if I can't backup a disk it isn't worth buying. BlueRay is even worse, and don't even get me started on the problems with online services like Amazon and Vudu that pretend that you are purchasing content when in reality you are only renting (I don't mind true rental services like Netflix and Hulu). I can't even give my money to the decent companies because there is no indication on the box about how annoying it will be to use the content. I don't often buy DVD's because the encryption is so infuriating. If you haven't seen the series, I highly recommend you watch it it is a masterpiece in nearly every way. My family invested in the complete set of the Avatar cartoon series (both the Last Airbender / Legend of Aang and the Legend of Korra season 1).
